Animals

Our 32 favourite funny tweets about what the orcas have been up to

Oonagh Keating. Updated June 28th, 2023

You’ve probably seen news reports of orcas attacking boats, initially yachts in the Straits of Gibraltar. One theory is that an orca named White Gladis may have inadvertently taught others to target the boats after she had some kind of negative experience – perhaps a painful collision with a vessel.

Certainly, the matriarch has been described as initiating some of the attacks and younger orcas may simply have copied her.

Recently, as many as 30 orcas – also known as killer whales – were seen in the waters off California, while some in the North Sea attacked a yacht near Shetland.

While the unusual encounters have proved distressing for some of the boats’ passengers and crews, the idea of orcas versus billionaires’ yachts grabbed the attention of Twitter. These are some of the best orca tweets we’ve seen so far.

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