An orca has decided to get revenge after being hit by a yacht. Since then, according to researchers, Gladis has become a master at the art of teaching her compatriots to overturn boats.
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The whale has already attacked three boats in British territory in Gibraltar and destroyed two of them, the Telegraph reports.
Scientists believe Gladis is seeking revenge after suffering a traumatic event, such as being hit by a boat or being caught in fishing nets.
“This traumatized killer whale triggered this behavior of physical contact with the boat,” Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and a representative of the Atlantic Orca Working Group, told The Telegraph.
The other orcas began to mimic his behavior.
A couple was attacked “in admiration for nature”.
On May 2, a group of six predators surprised a Cambridge couple as they were loading their yacht near Tangier, Morocco.
Janet Morris and Stephen Bidwell, both 58 and then taking a sailing course, said they were “awe of the power of nature”.
“A much larger matriarch was there and seemed to be monitoring [l’opération]says Mr. Bidwell.
It was “an experience I will never forget.”