The Current19:10The mysterious ‘orca uprising’
A strange new phenomenon involving sea mammals has captured the public’s imagination — and theories that orcas are intentionally targeting humans as an act of revenge have swarmed social media.
This narrative of an “orca-uprising” stems from our tendency to project human psychology onto intelligent wild animals, according to Justin Gregg, a senior researcher for the Dolphin Communication Project and author of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity.
“I think we always want to sort of see their behaviour as human-like, which is why people think of it as revenge, because that’s a very human-like
