Fun fact: Orcas are natural predators to moose swimming around America's Northwest Coast.
Known threats: Food shortages, chemical pollution, noise pollution, live captures
Conservation organization/initiative/network of the day: Ocean Defenders Alliance is organization which removes marine debris to ensure aquatic organisms and ecosystems can thrive! Check them out here: https://www.oceandefenders.org/
What you can do: Avoid consuming Chinook Salmon. They're an important food source for orcas.
Sources:
http://environmentalaska.us/orcas.html
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/how-orcas-are-threatened-in-the-wild/
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/orca-whales-heres-need-stop-eating-farmed-salmon/
>Be me. 6am on a Tuesday, late 2010, at the gym
>Been going for a few months
>Never been fat but a bit podgy
>MicroMoobs.gif
>Working out with FitBro
>Former hamplanet, Neptune class
>Now looks like a Greek god
>Fitspiration.wmv
>Katy Perry music video playing
>TeenageDreams.mp3
>Distraction level = high
>Incline bench, working off man tits
>Intensity level = very
>Rep 6, set 3
>Smell wafts in
>Sense memory kicks in
>Mumbai alleyway on a hot summers day
>Reptilian part of brain takes over
>Fight or flight scenario
>Reptile brain screams flight
>It knows before I do
>Squeeze out last 2 reps
>Sit up, arms burning
>I need to know
>Smell is increasing
>Look around to find the source
>NoseToEyeCoOrdination.bat
>Focus on mass at the squat rack
> hamplanet=new Object();
> hamplanet.firstname="Obesus";
> hamplanet.lastname="Orcinus";
> hamplanet.gender="male";
> hamplanet.age="25";
> hamplanet.height="172 cm";
> hamplanet.weight="160 kg";
>Translation: about 5'8", 353 lbs
>An Orca trapped in the shark netting that passed for gym clothes
>BulgesEverywhere.bmp
>Grunts each squat
>Not much weight on the bar
>This body is its own resistance training
>mfw
>FitBro when sees my face
>ΰ² _ΰ²
>He's been there before
>NeverKickAManWhenHesDown.mkv
>Nose crinkles up but ignore it
>Gotta get our sets in
>Spot FitBro
>He's benching 4 times what I can lift
>AllMyInadequacyIssues.feels
>Set 2, Rep 9
>It happens
>We hear it
>Sounds like a bugle horn
>Think its the Last Post
>Instinctively bow my head in respect
>ANZACLestWeForget.txt
>A fart for the ages
>A bum rumble so epic that its in the Iliad
>Time stops
>World stands still
>All the gym frozen in time
>Somehow we know a terrible moment has arrived
>A split seconds feels like hours
>Hairs up on my neck
>This is what God sounds like when he farts
>We are all transfixed
>I have heard the glory
>Silence
>A second passes
>What a glorious second
>Then I hear it
>The glorious dulcet tones of Obesus Orcinus
>A voice made for the stage
>IsItBrianBlessed?.mp3
>Not an opera
>Not even a stanza
>A single, solitary line
>"Arrgh, not again!"
>It dawns on me
>All of my sensory input has been
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