An orca has decided to take revenge after being hit by a yacht; Since then, Gladis has become a master of the art of training his compatriots to capsize boats, according to researchers.
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The whale has already attacked three boats and destroyed two of them in the British territory of Gibraltar, the Telegraph reports.
Researchers believe that Gladis seek revenge after experiencing a traumatic event, such as colliding with a boat or getting stuck in entanglement nets.
“This traumatized orca is the one that triggered this behavior of physical contact with the boat,” Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and representative of the Atlantic Orca working group, told The Telegraph.
The other orcas began to imitate his behavior.
A couple attacked “in admiration of nature”
On May 2, a group of six predators surprised a Cambridge couple while they were loading their yacht near Tangier, Morocco.
Janet Morris and Stephen Bidwell, both 58, who were taking a sailing course at the time, say they are “in awe of the power of nature”.
“A clearly larger matriarch was there and seemed to be supervising [l’opération]says mr. Bidwell.
It was “an experience I will never forget.”
