When it comes to animals with high IQs in the ocean, everyone may think of dolphins for the first time. In fact, there is a marine animal whose IQ not only crushes dolphins, but also is a complete troll. It's the killer whale.
Killer whales are the real beings at the top of the food chain in the ocean, and killer whales are also called orcas. It is a genus of killer whales belonging to the family Cetaceae, mammals. Adults weigh around 6600 kg and have an average body length of 6-9 meters. The head is slightly rounded and has an inconspicuous or no beak; The body is composed of black and white, and is known as the "giant panda in the ocean"; The upper and lower jaws have 10-12 conical teeth on each side; Males are generally larger than females. However, generally a killer whale population is led by an older female killer whale, which can be said to belong to the stage of matrilineal society.
Killer whales are mainly distributed in the waters near Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang and Taiwan in China, and are also distributed in all oceans around the world, and are common in high latitudes and coastal waters. They do not have a fixed habitat and generally migrate with their favorite fish. Female killer whales can produce 1 litter per year and give birth to 5 litters throughout their lifetime. Males generally live 50-60 years, while females generally live 80-90 years.
Why do killer whales have a high IQ, and even crush dolphins of the same family?
Killer whales have their own unique language system They will use their own language to communicate, but according to scientists' translation analysis, most of their words are scolding "whales" when hunting or communicating in ordinary times. It can be said that they are a magical species that likes to swear and swear at each other.
Killer whales are highly social groups Killer whales are generally a family group, led by an older female killer whale, and the killer whale family is the most stable family in the animal kingdom. There is no father-son or father-daughter relationship in the whale herd, and the mother-daughter or mother-child relationship will always exist. And when the ethnic group is too large, they will take the initiative to "divide" and establish a new group
As Da Liu described in his book "Village Teachers", what surprised the alien higher civilization was that humans without memory inheritance could create such a splendid civilization because there was a group in this species responsible for transmitting knowledge between two generations - teachers. The same is true of killer whale groups, they will get elder experience and knowledge transmission from birth, not only instinctive hunting knowledge transmission, they will also pass on what they see and hear from generation to generation, which is a good explanation for why killer whales are generally friendly to humans, and even take the initiative to provide food to humans. Not only because in their eyes human beings are pets like cats and dogs, but also because their former elders have seen the strong ships of human beings and know that they should not become the enemies of human beings.
Killer whales use superb hunting skills Killer whales are brilliant in hunting, they will make waves by inciting their tail fins to shoot seals on the ice into the water, and when they encounter large ice floes, they will first cut the ice floes into small pieces; When hunting sharks, they will tip the shark from the bottom up to make it incapacitated, there was once a sea area in South Africa where sharks were swept up by killer whales, dozens of shark carcasses washed to the coast, only livers were gnawed; Killer whales also use fish as bait to trap seabirds.
Killer whales are the spirits of the ocean, the embodiment of nature's remarkable creation. However, such a miraculous and powerful species has also been listed as a second-class protected animal under human hunting and habitat destruction. Killer whales are free, and they are forced to perform in the aquarium will be mentally depressed and psychologically distorted, and the once widely circulated American killer whale Tilikum murder is precisely because of its revenge caused by long-term repression and no freedom
The collapse of the dorsal fin of killer whales is a manifestation of physical and psychological problems of killer whales
Refuse animal performances, they belong to nature and we have no right to deprive them of their freedom!
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