had zero knowledge
If you go back only 35 years, we knew nothing.Blackfish · 2013 — Capítulo 5 de 8 · 2'58" · C1
Orca Families Each Have a Language, Explained: screams out
On the surface this is a nature lesson: orcas live in families, stay with their mothers, and each community keeps its own calls. Underneath it is a reversal of the old monster story. "What the public had was superstition and fear" gives way to brains, emotion, and a self that may be shared across the group.
Qué pasa
Someone recalls a time only 35 years earlier, when the public saw killer whales as vicious animals that would rip a person to shreds. The account then turns: orcas are described as friendly, with no record of a wild orca harming a human. Adult offspring never leave their mothers, each community has its own calls, and a brain scan is offered as evidence of intelligence and emotion.
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less than nothingwhat in hellrip you to shredsmother's side
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screams out
so obvious it seems to shout
Once families and calls are done, screams out makes the brain sound unmistakably aware.
This chart screams out a staffing problem.
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- less than nothing
a blank below zero
- what in hell
an angry demand: what are you
- rip you to shreds
tear you into pieces
- mother's side
right beside one's mother
- every indication
all the signs point one way
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a blank below zero
Right after admitting total ignorance, less than nothing undercuts even that, brisk and a little mocking.
In fact, less than nothing.Let the n of than slide into nothing.
In fact, less than nothing.myth mixed with dread
What the public had was superstition and fear.a struggle until one side dies
A fight to the death...what on earth are you — A shocked snap at someone close; skip it in formal talk.
What in hell are you?!tear you into pieces
Someone quotes the old threat that those teeth would rip you to shreds, so the friendlier correction has something loud to answer.
These were the vicious killer whales that, you know, had 48 sharp teeth that would rip you to shreds if they got a chance.relative clause: The that-clause says what the teeth do; if limits it to one chance.
These were the vicious killer whales that, you know, had 48 sharp teeth that would rip you to shreds if they got a chance.even now, still true
And to this day there is no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild.nothing documented as having happened
And to this day there is no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild.free-living, not kept by people
And to this day there is no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild.Keep to soft and place the weight on day.
And to this day there is no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild.Leave and as a short n and do not give it a full vowel.
And they have life spans very similar to human life spans.In quick speech the t in about is a light tap, not a hard stop.
The females can live to about 100, maybe more, males to about 50 or 60.stay right beside one's mother
But the adult offspring never leave their mother's side.the full set of calls
Each has a complete repertoire of vocalizations with no overlap.nothing shared between them
Each has a complete repertoire of vocalizations with no overlap.hesitant to state it
The scientific community is reluctant to say any other animal but humans uses languages, but there's every indication that they use languages.every animal except humans but means except here, not however
The scientific community is reluctant to say any other animal but humans uses languages, but there's every indication that they use languages.exceptive but: Here but means except, so singular animal still takes uses.
The scientific community is reluctant to say any other animal but humans uses languages, but there's every indication that they use languages.Stress screams and let out drop off.
The orca brain just screams out intelligence, awareness.glaringly obvious — Fine in speech when something is glaring; too loud for a paper.
The orca brain just screams out intelligence, awareness.right next to
A part of their brain has extended out right adjacent to their limbic system.the least risky conclusion
The safest inference would be these are animals that have highly elaborated emotional lives.inner emotional life
The safest inference would be these are animals that have highly elaborated emotional lives.ties that hold a group together
of self, a sense of social bonding that they've taken to another level-- much stronger, much more complex than in other mammals, including humans.many animals beached at once
We look at mass strandings, the fact that they stand by each other.stay with one another in trouble
We look at mass strandings, the fact that they stand by each other.spread across the members
After the talk of staying together, distributed among offers a cautious but huge claim about the self.
It's been suggested that their whole sense of self is distributed among the individuals in their group.extraposed subject: It holds the subject slot; the real claim follows that.
It's been suggested that their whole sense of self is distributed among the individuals in their group.Orca Families Each Have a Language, explicado
What's really going on
The opening sells the old story: a "fight to the death" "between the two most dangerous animals on Earth," and killer whales with "48 sharp teeth that would rip you to shreds." Then the same telling empties that story out. Friendliness replaces the monster. There is "no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild." What follows is not a list of cute facts. Families and the line "the adult offspring never leave their mother's side" put the social bond first. Separate calls, "with no overlap," let someone say you could call them languages, while science still hesitates to grant that word to any animal but humans. Intelligence "screams out" of the brain, a region lies beside the system that processes emotion, and "the safest inference" is a rich emotional life. Bonding has been "taken to another level," past other mammals, "including humans." The animals "stand by each other," and one suggestion goes further: the self is "distributed among" the group.
Theme
Family loveAdult offspring never leave their mother's side, and the animals stand by each other even in mass strandings, so the family bond is the whole point of the account.
IdentitySomeone suggests the orca's sense of self is distributed among the group, which makes identity a shared thing rather than a private one.
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- less than nothing — Let the n of than slide into nothing.
- to this day — Keep to soft and place the weight on day.
- And they have — Leave and as a short n and do not give it a full vowel.
- to about — In quick speech the t in about is a light tap, not a hard stop.
What the public had was superstition and fear.The public image 35 years earlier was not knowledge at all, only superstition and fear of killer whales.
And to this day there is no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild.A flat claim that no wild orca is on record for harming a human. It answers the old monster picture and limits itself to the wild.
But the adult offspring never leave their mother's side.Grown offspring stay beside the mother for life. In this account the orca family does not split when the young become adults.
The scientific community is reluctant to say any other animal but humans uses languages, but there's every indication that they use languages.Science hesitates to call any nonhuman system a language, but someone says the evidence points that way for orca calls. Reluctance and indication sit in the same breath.
Everything about them is social-- everything.Nothing here is treated as solitary. Family, calls, emotion, and even the sense of self are all framed as social.
It's been suggested that their whole sense of self is distributed among the individuals in their group.A cautious suggestion, not a settled fact. The orca sense of self may be spread across the whole group rather than held inside one animal.
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Why were killer whales once treated as monsters?
Someone says that if you go back only 35 years, "we knew nothing," in fact "less than nothing," and "what the public had was superstition and fear." The picture that follows is a fight to the death, and "vicious killer whales" with "48 sharp teeth that would rip you to shreds if they got a chance."
Does this scene claim a wild orca has ever harmed a human?
It claims the opposite. "And to this day there is no record of an orca doing any harm to any human in the wild." The line speaks only about the wild.
Do adult orcas leave their mothers?
This account says they do not. "The adult offspring never leave their mother's side." Females "can live to about 100, maybe more," males "to about 50 or 60," and the offspring still stay.
Are orca vocalizations really languages?
Someone says each community has "a complete repertoire of vocalizations with no overlap," and "you could call them languages." The scientific community is "reluctant to say any other animal but humans uses languages," but "there's every indication that they use languages." The lines give both the hesitation and the indication.
What is the brain scan used to argue?
Someone says "this tremendous brain" was put in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, and the finding was "astounding": orcas have "a part of the brain that humans don't have," "extended out right adjacent to their limbic system," the system that "processes emotions." From that, "the safest inference" is that they "have highly elaborated emotional lives."
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