Malo

- Cg artist - Film photography 🎞 Mamiya645 & Minolta srt101

[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

The spot - the shot 🎞 on Cinestill 800T

[Pokemon FansHub @pokemon_fanss]

Johto Beginnings, Myths & Legends

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[rom @rommeldrawlines]

It's my birthday! Can you share my art as a gift? Thank you so much! ✨🙈

[Netflix @netflix]

RAY GUNN, a new original animated film from writer-director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), is coming soon to Netflix.

Starring Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Waits.

Set in the gigantic city Metropia in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova.

[Laserlazuli @laserlazuli]

A little poem I wrote for a dnd campaign about Goblin lore

[波比👾pixelart @haopanyo]

Ho-Oh
#pixelart #pokemon

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

I am Harry, a Harvard educated curator ready to slay the house down boots. Today is the day I yoink control from the social girlies and Ali the mother of all rizzlers. They will not stop my aura. Siri add painting emoji here thanks

[新新 @xinxinbird]

去年的

[Isa // Lord of Crows @Secondlina]

Beginners [1/4]

[川原瑞丸 (Mizmaru Kawahara) @Mizmaru]

スペース・コーギーのシリーズ

[paw @pawcord]

i’m genuinely in love with this ad
a french one? for a SUPERMARKET?? like woah

[N氏 @fruit1830]

誕生日〜〜❕

[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

Nā Pali coast views from the sky
🎞️ Gold 200
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[hunter @huntermartinart]

Three Sacred Beasts

[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

Helicopter tour over Kauai - Waimea Canyon
🎞️ Portra 400
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[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

Secret Beach - Kauai
🎞️ Gold 200
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[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

Ke’e beach Tower
🎞️Gold 200
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[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
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[Malo @GoodGuyCrabs]

Kauai Island
🎞️ Gold 200
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