Poisoned Orcas Attacking and Sinking Boats

Plasticizers in ocean likely causing orca aggression.

Date Created: 2023, May 26

Keywords: bisphenol, phthalate, plasticizer, aggression, orca, attack, sink, boat

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People are talking about orcas attacking, and sometime sinking, boats off the coast of Portugal and Spain. From what I have found, the attacks began occurring in 2020. In recent years, orcas have been found beached, obviously disoriented. Alzheimer's? And I'm serious.

The attacks are terrifying sailors and recreational boaters. For some reason, the attacks are baffling scientists and the researchers are mystified. They're blaming a ticked off female orca for the attacks. However, the cause of the aggression and confusion exhibited by the orcas is painfully, disgustingly, glaringly obvious: Gibraltar orcas spend time seeking food in the plastics-polluted waters of the Gibraltar Strait. Currently, ,approximately 230,000 tonnes of plastics are dumped into the Mediterranean Sea every year. Additionally, run-off from microplastic saturated biosolids application in Spain enters the Mediterranean Sea, further polluting already borderline toxic water. The water they live in and the food they eat is poisoned in the plastics-polluted waters.

The plasticizer-polluted the water Gibraltar orcas live in is polluted with chemicals such as bisphenol-A, from the decomposing plastics. Bisphenol A has been proven to cause increased aggression in offspring of MANY species. It seems now even six ton killer whales are affected by the love and worship of plastics.

Um... How can plastic water bottles poison the water IN THE OCEAN concentrated enough to affect the behavior of SIX TON sea creatures... Uh, but NOT poison the water IN THE BOTTLE? Magic? Sorcery? A wave of Tinkerbell's wand?

Neurochemical and behavioral analysis by acute exposure to bisphenol A in zebrafish larvae model...
Prenatal exposure in particular can lead to infertility and nervous system disorders characterized by behavioral aggression, depression, and cognitive impairment, thus necessitating careful hazard assessment.

Aggressive behavior and serum testosterone concentration during the maturation process of male mice: the effects of fetal exposure to bisphenol A....
These results demonstrate that bisphenol A temporarily activated aggressive behavior in mice at 8 weeks of age and that low doses of bisphenol A interfered with the normal development of reproductive organs.

Bisphenol-A exposures and behavioural aberrations: median and linear spline and meta-regression analyses of 12 toxicity studies in rodents...
A significant increment of aggressiveness was observed in both the sexes (ß)=67.9,C.I. 3.4, 172.5, P=0.038, at >4.0 µg.

I could go on. But hopefully you get the point...


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