A photographer was on board a boat that was attacked by a killer whale - a growing occurrence in the waters off Spain.
A killer whale named Gladis is attacking boats around Spain and Portugal with a photographer being left “in awe” after he was on board one of them.
The pod of orcas attacked Bidwell’s boat for about an hour and alarmingly it is one of several similar attacks in the area which is being pinned on one vengeful orca named Gladis. “That traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of physical contact with the boat,” says Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and representative of the Atlantic Orca working group
López adds that Gladis’s behavior was not revenge but a behavior learned “as a reaction and precaution”, which the other whales were imitating.
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