SCIENTISTS have finally puzzled out why killer whales have been on a rampage against boats off the coast of Gibraltar, insisting the marine mammals's attacks are a fad - like jelly shoes and hula hoops! Since May 2020, videos have captured nearly 700 mystifying orca attacks on watercraft in the Strait of Gibraltar near the Iberian Peninsula.
The killer whales deliberately head-butted the vessels, often sinking them, and play with the rudders they tear off! Theories for the bizarre behavior have included that the befuddled creatures mistake the boats as competition for food.
But marine biologist Alex Zerbini, chair of the scientific committee at the International Whaling Commission (IWC), calls the boat-ramming a new
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