How intelligent are they? In what ways are they outright superior

They don't have the PATRIARCHY, tumblr tier animals.

They're cuter than humans and better at swimming.

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Well, according to the movie Orca, one of them was smart enough to blow up an entire town in order to make a whale hunter go mad and sail into the North Pole for a final 1-v-1 death match:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVTo0lXcyVk

>>2209837
>In what ways are they outright superior to humans?

>bigger
>stronger
>better swimmers
>can hold their breath longer
>can eat an entire seal with one or two bites
>not scared of sharks

A certain pod of them in Argentina developed a tactic where they beach themselves to grab things on land. The old ones teach the young ones. The interesting thing is that this is the only place in the world they do this. It's a behavior specific to this group of orcas alone. There are other examples of this sort of thing as well.

I wouldn't say they are superior to humans in any way that really matters.

They are fairly intelligent in that they are able to learn and develop strategies for hunting different animals. They are also able to pass down these lessons to their offspring. They are also incredibly social animals. Their emotional intelligence might even be on par with ours. I wouldn't say their brains are superior to ours, but I think they are more similar to us than we realize

>>2209897

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>watch a cool movie
>shitpost
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>play vidya

Oh yea sure, Orca's are superior

Doesn't matter because big brains, living on land, AND having good manipulators (hands) is ultimate superiority.
Elephants had a chance but remain fuckstupid herbivores, only carnivores can actually be intelligent life.

>>2209837
I think their intelligence is overrated. They occasionally have one that figures something out and the rest (sometimes just a few) learn from that one. Different groups each have one (maybe none) specialized feeding habit. They don't pass them between groups.

>>2210210
That's not true. They could pass behaviors between pods. Not all orcas stay with the same pods forever. Transient orcas have been known to come and go between pods and they could pass on knowledge they've gained from their family pod to other unrelated whales.

So, no. Not overrated. Scientists have said that the orcas hunting tactics alone are the most complex ever observed in nature. They can adapt to just about any situation where other animals can't.

>>2210210
The way those niggers can work together to achieve a goal is pretty fucking scary, imo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTHZ8Vi7tsc

>>2209949
they actually refer to these subgroups as "cultures" which demonstrates the unique versatility of individual groups imo

>>2209939
I also watched a documentary where a single orca figured out how to use the rising tides to their advantage in order to get into an otherwise inaccessible baby seal nursery cove to eat the defenseless seals and, I believe, taught the young orcas in the group to do the exact same thing.

>>2210096
Elephants arent stupid anon they are smarter than your 10 year old. Problem is the elephants dont got no hands like us.

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>>2212149
I saw a program that briefly mentioned south-pacific orcas will hunt stingray from underneath rocks by blowing bubbles to smoke them out of hiding.

>>2212181
They have long prehensile snoots though.