Scientists believe that killer orca whales in the waters off of Europe's Iberian Peninsula are teaching each other how to sink sailboats.
. But it wasn't until this month that any of these increasingly hostile orcas had actually sunk any ocean-faring vessels.
As the theory goes, other adult orcas picked up on this behavior, becoming more aggressive with boats themselves. And now, the kids ofadults have seemingly picked up the behavior, too. At this point, according to López Fernandez, sinking sailboats is really just good ol' family fun., "although the behavior has spread to the young vertically, simply by imitation, and later horizontally among them, because they consider it something important in their lives.
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