Luna was a smart boy, he knew not to touch boat propellers. I think he was murdered by the bastard fishermen who were tired of the regulations with the poor boy being around.
@@ireallycant4416 its a male. Orca are a highly social(one of the most) and matriarcal species which means the males get bullied out of thier groups and end up drifting alone and lonely. Luna was one of these young males who was lonely.
@@katiewyn-jones7955 That is NOT how orca societies work!! Luna was still a mostly dependent, though weaned calf when he was separated. Even IF orca groups did kick out males (which, again, they don't. ESPECIALLY not the Southern Residents. males there stay with their mothers and family pods until they day they die) they wouldn't kick out a baby.
It was the incompetence of the Canadian government in handling the situation that led to Luna's death. The animal was desperate for attention and the Canadian gov't did what it could to deprive the animal of that attention. In desperation it turned to the boats which led to his demise.
I wonder if it would have been beneficial for Luna to have designated human companions. Could the government have trained and licensed certain people to interact with Luna, almost as a surrogate human pod? I seemed like limiting human interaction with Luna caused more problems than it created.
That would have been the worst thing they could do. I'm not a radical about this, but if you study just a little, all the captive whales need to be released. They suffer endlessly. Even the largest enclosures are too small. Their diets are unnatural, especially the ones from pods that eat mammals. They have food withheld as a training technique. No humans have been attacked by orcas in the wild. Only by the ones in captivity. One of our most inhumane failings is to captive orcas.
The capture was averted by the Natives, who said he was a former chief reincarnated. However, the capture and relocation plan itself were a bit shady. There was no guarantee the relocation would succeed (Springer was separated from his own family for only a few months, while Luna was there for years), and in case the plan did not work, the DFO was not clear about Luna's destiny, which included the option of captivity and maybe even culling him. So, it's really not sure how things would have turned out, and I think those who opposed the capture also did so out of love for Luna. However, now I am also sad we will never know how it would have gone; maybe he would have been back with his mother.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ This baby would have adjusted and learned from his own, had he been reunited with them. This poor thing was rubbing against boats for “attention”. Physical and verbal attention. Who could give him that in words he understood better? His kind, plain and simple.
@@SweetDee928 the government never “got an ok” as you said. Not sure where you got that from. They turned down a plan by orca experts to reunite Luna with his pod because they wanted to put him in an aquarium prison and make money off him. The natives felt that Luna was best left to his own devices in the ocean (THEY WERE RIGHT) so they interfered with Luna’s capture. Lune was not hit by a boat. Luna was killed by fishermen who were tired of him affecting the bay but there was not enough evidence to charge anyone of the murder.
+Carmen Liu luna was so happy and loved being with people. we were his family. its a shame that they were making it seem like he was going to harm us, while in the end, it was humans that killed him
Way to turn around stuff... "disturbing" "gross" "morbid". Yes it isnt great but when i look up videos people posted ofthis whale, you see alot of sadness for the whale as it gavethem memories of their life. These whales are very smart, smarter then us by the sounds of it. They should be able to respect us and us not be idiots to see we are in their home.
To bad Luna was killed by a tugboat. Actually, Luna became very dangerous. Luna was so lonely, he would spin little boats around and stop them from going ahead. He was killed by the blades of the tugboat. The Canadian government waited to long to reunite him with his family.
hidhawkes I think the it was genuinely just playing and not trying to intentionally hurt anyone, the animal is lonely and likes any attention he can get from humans
@@lovelydiva06 no he knew what he was doing orcas play with their food like that, he was problem trying to spin the boat to push the ppl off n eat them
Luna was a young Orca, so he wouldn't know how to hunt human sized prey at all, he'd only know how to hunt small fish. Do your research, Luna was playing with the boats.
@@ciarakarpati2611 Luna was too young to learn how to hunt human sized prey, he'd only learned to hunt small fish and that's all. Luna being this young, was actually playing with the boat. Don't listen to those louzy claims.
So the whale is sad and depressed, lonely. So cut off all interaction with humans? And from a video of the orca named Springer, I learned that for skin health Orcas have to rub against other orcas or objects.
He may of been used to the props of small boats, but he was also used to situations where more often than not, people turned off their engines around him. Plus, he was getting less and less attention from people, and thus getting more and more desperate for it. The General Jackson, the boat that killed him, was a 104 foot tugboat who either didn't notice him, or, if they did, didn't stop. He got too close to the prop and got sucked in. He wasn't run over or hit. And the captain of that ship radioed in what had happened moments after he hit Luna. If he was trying to cover up the fact he intentionally killed the whale, wouldn't it be best to say nothing and just let Luna vanish, and his death be a mystery?
I'll just say it, the First Nations prevented him from being reunited with his pad. "The Whale" shows the Department of Fisheries getting so close, and the First Nations led him away, and then dumped him. Just turned this animal into a pawn in their resentment of the Dept of Fisheries. And we know how the story ends.
You know nothing about what happened. I live here. There was a very very big chance the L pod wouldn’t have accepted Luna, had that been the case, Luna would have been put into captivity at sea world or a similar aquarium. The First Nations stepped in because they felt a spiritual connection to the animal, plus the low likelihood of the pod accepting him and most of all, had the pod not accepted him, he would be swimming in a bleached aquarium left to live a life of captivity. If there’s anyone to blame for what happened with Luna it’s the department of fisheries and the fisherman who likely killed him because of all the regulations and eyes that were on the area due to his presence. Don’t talk about things you don’t know. Sincerely, Vancouver island resident
@@5aturnia you must have meet Luna at least once, no, I am not mad at you because my country have been dealing with a lot of "you don't know but pretend to know" situation so I understand
I have a feeling he was kaptured into some privite collection in Russia or Europe or even japan and was illegally set free mabe it dosent make sense he lost his pod or mabe his mother was killed or he might of goten beached in low tied his famaly left him
The Southern Residents live in waters around the US and Canada where all orcas are legally protected, and they themselves have special protections on top of that. He wasn't captured. His family is known. His mother was L67, Splash, who passed away in 2008, 7 years after Luna got separated from her.
They never fed him, he bonded with them and stuck around. You can't assume he was killed by propellers, he may have been killed on purpose(but they covered it up).
my heart is aching so bad right now. RIP.
Luna was a smart boy, he knew not to touch boat propellers. I think he was murdered by the bastard fishermen who were tired of the regulations with the poor boy being around.
Excuse me.. it's a she
@@ireallycant4416 its a male. Orca are a highly social(one of the most) and matriarcal species which means the males get bullied out of thier groups and end up drifting alone and lonely. Luna was one of these young males who was lonely.
R.I.P sea dogo
There is mean people like that
I AGREE!!!
@@katiewyn-jones7955 That is NOT how orca societies work!! Luna was still a mostly dependent, though weaned calf when he was separated. Even IF orca groups did kick out males (which, again, they don't. ESPECIALLY not the Southern Residents. males there stay with their mothers and family pods until they day they die) they wouldn't kick out a baby.
It was the incompetence of the Canadian government in handling the situation that led to Luna's death. The animal was desperate for attention and the Canadian gov't did what it could to deprive the animal of that attention. In desperation it turned to the boats which led to his demise.
The First Nations averted this!
It's such a shame what happened to Luna.
I wonder if it would have been beneficial for Luna to have designated human companions. Could the government have trained and licensed certain people to interact with Luna, almost as a surrogate human pod? I seemed like limiting human interaction with Luna caused more problems than it created.
Such a shame Luna wasn’t moved during that mid September like was supposed to.
Human stupidity and vanity... once again nature is paying
RIP Luna
So sad he was all alone and desperate :( Perhaps they should've moved him to a marine facility, seeing how much he loved human attention.
That would have been the worst thing they could do. I'm not a radical about this, but if you study just a little, all the captive whales need to be released. They suffer endlessly. Even the largest enclosures are too small. Their diets are unnatural, especially the ones from pods that eat mammals. They have food withheld as a training technique. No humans have been attacked by orcas in the wild. Only by the ones in captivity. One of our most inhumane failings is to captive orcas.
Why didnt they just relocate him as planned?
The capture was averted by the Natives, who said he was a former chief reincarnated.
However, the capture and relocation plan itself were a bit shady. There was no guarantee the relocation would succeed (Springer was separated from his own family for only a few months, while Luna was there for years), and in case the plan did not work, the DFO was not clear about Luna's destiny, which included the option of captivity and maybe even culling him.
So, it's really not sure how things would have turned out, and I think those who opposed the capture also did so out of love for Luna. However, now I am also sad we will never know how it would have gone; maybe he would have been back with his mother.
Even so, Luna was more used to humans. And he wouldn't accept the pod, he'd just turn around and try to return to where the humans live.
@@TheKaijuGamer_ This baby would have adjusted and learned from his own, had he been reunited with them. This poor thing was rubbing against boats for “attention”. Physical and verbal attention. Who could give him that in words he understood better? His kind, plain and simple.
@@SweetDee928 the natives saved him from a life of enslavement.
@@SweetDee928 the government never “got an ok” as you said. Not sure where you got that from.
They turned down a plan by orca experts to reunite Luna with his pod because they wanted to put him in an aquarium prison and make money off him.
The natives felt that Luna was best left to his own devices in the ocean (THEY WERE RIGHT) so they interfered with Luna’s capture.
Lune was not hit by a boat. Luna was killed by fishermen who were tired of him affecting the bay but there was not enough evidence to charge anyone of the murder.
Caught in a ships propeller😢
I Think They Killed Luna.
Slim Jim 88 i do too. So much so. Always have since that horrible foggy March morning .
Rest in peace,
little lost boy...
Me too. He was a smart boy and knew to stay away from boat props.. He was murdered and those responsible should be punished as such.
@@exime9500 the government does a lot of things. It’s very naive to think they wouldn’t do something like that
He wasn’t murdered
Young orcas learn as the get older
Poor Luna, why can't they help him find his family. He is just looking for championship after strain away from his family.
+Carmen Liu luna was so happy and loved being with people. we were his family. its a shame that they were making it seem like he was going to harm us, while in the end, it was humans that killed him
*_h e_*
poor luna
Way to turn around stuff... "disturbing" "gross" "morbid". Yes it isnt great but when i look up videos people posted ofthis whale, you see alot of sadness for the whale as it gavethem memories of their life. These whales are very smart, smarter then us by the sounds of it. They should be able to respect us and us not be idiots to see we are in their home.
To bad Luna was killed by a tugboat. Actually, Luna became very dangerous. Luna was so lonely, he would spin little boats around and stop them from going ahead. He was killed by the blades of the tugboat. The Canadian government waited to long to reunite him with his family.
hidhawkes I think the it was genuinely just playing and not trying to intentionally hurt anyone, the animal is lonely and likes any attention he can get from humans
@@lovelydiva06 no he knew what he was doing orcas play with their food like that, he was problem trying to spin the boat to push the ppl off n eat them
HE WAS NOT EVER DANGEROUS!!! DONT BE SO SHALLOW!!!
Luna was a young Orca, so he wouldn't know how to hunt human sized prey at all, he'd only know how to hunt small fish. Do your research, Luna was playing with the boats.
@@ciarakarpati2611
Luna was too young to learn how to hunt human sized prey, he'd only learned to hunt small fish and that's all. Luna being this young, was actually playing with the boat. Don't listen to those louzy claims.
So the whale is sad and depressed, lonely. So cut off all interaction with humans? And from a video of the orca named Springer, I learned that for skin health Orcas have to rub against other orcas or objects.
Oh that's why the trainers at seaworld always rub the orcas.
I'm pretty sure they killed Luna, he's too smart to have ran directly into boat props. So I believe the men on that boat may have killed him
He was sucked into the turboat propeller things
He was sucked into the tugboat propeller and then it killed him
He may of been used to the props of small boats, but he was also used to situations where more often than not, people turned off their engines around him. Plus, he was getting less and less attention from people, and thus getting more and more desperate for it. The General Jackson, the boat that killed him, was a 104 foot tugboat who either didn't notice him, or, if they did, didn't stop. He got too close to the prop and got sucked in. He wasn't run over or hit. And the captain of that ship radioed in what had happened moments after he hit Luna. If he was trying to cover up the fact he intentionally killed the whale, wouldn't it be best to say nothing and just let Luna vanish, and his death be a mystery?
That is true serial killer don’t report a death they try to make it a mystery
"Scientists"?! I only heard one scientist.
I am wondering if Luna had been reunited with her family yet?
Luna died in 2006.
Lol stupid Seattle Stations I'm not much of a fan of my local newstations.
I'll just say it, the First Nations prevented him from being reunited with his pad.
"The Whale" shows the Department of Fisheries getting so close, and the First Nations led him away, and then dumped him. Just turned this animal into a pawn in their resentment of the Dept of Fisheries.
And we know how the story ends.
You know nothing about what happened. I live here. There was a very very big chance the L pod wouldn’t have accepted Luna, had that been the case, Luna would have been put into captivity at sea world or a similar aquarium. The First Nations stepped in because they felt a spiritual connection to the animal, plus the low likelihood of the pod accepting him and most of all, had the pod not accepted him, he would be swimming in a bleached aquarium left to live a life of captivity. If there’s anyone to blame for what happened with Luna it’s the department of fisheries and the fisherman who likely killed him because of all the regulations and eyes that were on the area due to his presence. Don’t talk about things you don’t know.
Sincerely, Vancouver island resident
@@5aturnia you must have meet Luna at least once, no, I am not mad at you because my country have been dealing with a lot of "you don't know but pretend to know" situation so I understand
Poor luna got merked by muricans
I saw the movie of luna its called the whale I cryed when luna died it was the fucking stupid tugbat
PLEASE DONT DO THIS WITH ANYMORE WHALES THAT INDIAN TRIBE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES
They saved him from sufferworld
They ask not to feedback him or give him attention and what do these idiots? Bangin to get his attention.
I have a feeling he was kaptured into some privite collection in Russia or Europe or even japan and was illegally set free mabe it dosent make sense he lost his pod or mabe his mother was killed or he might of goten beached in low tied his famaly left him
The Southern Residents live in waters around the US and Canada where all orcas are legally protected, and they themselves have special protections on top of that. He wasn't captured.
His family is known. His mother was L67, Splash, who passed away in 2008, 7 years after Luna got separated from her.
News is propaganda
They killed him, such bastards
They didn’t the tug boat driver could not look back or he didn’t know until it was too late
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE FEED A WILD ANIMAL SHAME ON THOSE PEOPLE IF THEY WOULD HAVE LEFT THAT WHALE ALONE HE WOULD STILL BE ALIVE
They never fed him, he bonded with them and stuck around. You can't assume he was killed by propellers, he may have been killed on purpose(but they covered it up).
He was looking for any interaction he could get as well. He should have been relocated.
I wish he went to Seaworld he really loved people!
HE ATTACKED MY TUG SO I GROUND HIM INTO FISH BURGER HES WAS NO MATCH FOR A 600HP TUG POOR LUNA