Wild* killer whale attack
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Sharks are fish, orcas are mammals. It’s like asking why your goldfish can’t learn tricks as well as your dog. Fish have much less brains, in so many dimensions.
The whole “sharks confuse humans with seals” thing is way overblown and essentially unproven.
Sharks are a completely different organism from killer whales so there’s no real basis for comparing behaviour. It’s like asking why dogs bite people but snails don’t.
A lot of it is simply a matter of opportunity. There are only about 50,000 ocra in the world, and they prefer cold water. Sharks number in the millions and many live in the warm, shallow waters you are likely to find people at.
Sometimes my dog barks at other dogs. Why don’t humans bark at other dogs? Probably because they’re not dogs. Just like whales aren’t sharks. And not being sharks, they don’t do shark stuff.
First of all, There have been recorded killer whale attacks on humans. According to the article I will link below, they are rare but when they do happen, they are probably due to cases of mistaken identity, exactly like they are for sharks.
And of course, there are the notorious attacks by Killer Whales in captivity resulting in 4 human deaths, so I am unsure where this assumption of no killer whale attacks have ever been recorded comes from?
https://www.whalefacts.org/killer-whale-attacks/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale_attack
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