Orcas Have Been Trying to Feed People

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Wild orcas on more than 30 occasions in four oceans have attempted to share their prey with people, potentially to develop relationships with humans, researchers have found.

In each of the instances recorded over two decades, orcas approached a person within a length of the orca's body, and dropped freshly hunted prey in front of the human, then waited for a response, according to a paper published June 30 in the Journal of Comparative Psychology.

Orcas of every age tried to share their prey, and just about everything was on the menu: sea otter, harbor seal, common murre, gray whale, green turtle, eagle ray, starfish, jellyfish, ocean sunfish, and on and on. Prey sharing is common in orca culture....

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