A viral TikTok of a woman attempting to get a sea lion off of her boat while being surrounded by orcas has sparked a myriad of different responses from around the internet.
Orcas are predators, which means that the sea lion was almost certainly in danger from the school of killer whales surrounding the woman's boat. Nonetheless, she attempted to get the animal off anyway.
A sea lion hopped on this woman\u2019s boat on tik tok with 3+ Orcas surrounding the boat to get it and they tearing the woman UP for telling the sea lion to get off— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty) 1632596844
Like omg\u2026pic.twitter.com/LUd0uUdgSI— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty) 1632597001
pic.twitter.com/PpBFc68P3c— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty) 1632597222
they literally don\u2019t rest until they get their food like ain\u2019t no telling what they would\u2019ve done to her boat I don\u2019t know what I would\u2019ve done https://youtu.be/g1VEwsI4SlY\u00a0pic.twitter.com/EWVeYfSSaq— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty) 1632597776
Orcas, while generally non-aggressive toward humans, are top-of-the-food-chain predators nonetheless. They are ruthless and have been known to tip boats over while working together in order to get their prey.
So should the sea lion have stayed on the woman's boat, there's no telling what may have happened to both the woman and her boat.
her: "you gotta go"\n\nthe sea lion:pic.twitter.com/3p1Hym64nZ— olivia\u2077\u221e\ud83c\udf39\ud83e\udd8b\u2661black lives matter\u2661 (@olivia\u2077\u221e\ud83c\udf39\ud83e\udd8b\u2661black lives matter\u2661) 1632597173
No the murder oreos are surrounding the sea pupper— Sunisa Lee's Backyard Beam (@Sunisa Lee's Backyard Beam) 1632657074
Definitely would\u2019ve pushed the mf offpic.twitter.com/owWSvnYr6W— OVER IT (@OVER IT) 1632606528
Those orcas can flip that boat with easepic.twitter.com/pf6VWYu8ck— Gil Belichick (@Gil Belichick) 1632655272
As orcas are a protected species in the wild, turning on an engine while in close proximity could harm the orcas and potentially lead to fines or jail time, which is why effectively our original poster was left in a bad position with the sea lion.
I really love how the sea lion is like no, you\u2019ll get it in a minute but I\u2019m *not* movingpic.twitter.com/cLjiAYFTSh— \ud83d\uddef (@\ud83d\uddef) 1632571639
When you\u2019re gonna be finepic.twitter.com/jnD2cJLJPs— \ud83d\uddef (@\ud83d\uddef) 1632579010
So she had time to TikTok but couldn\u2019t call for some help maybe?— \ud83d\udc9cMommaGeri (@\ud83d\udc9cMommaGeri) 1632580432
More of it. He gets offpic.twitter.com/VGcHFXRF2Y— Ichigo Niggasake (@Ichigo Niggasake) 1632591637
The orcas WILL tip her boat to get to what they want to eat. I need you to understand: orcas are black ops. They are one of the scariest goddamn animals in the ocean. They are ACTIVELY malicious beasts.\n\nThat sea lion is running for its life and endangering the boat owner.— Radiation survey and ship all the ships (@Radiation survey and ship all the ships) 1632596962
Eventually, it appears the orcas did leave the boat alone and the woman got to safety.
Unfortunately, the fate of the sea lion cannot be vouched for.
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