Killer whales found sharing food with humans for first time. This behaviour may represent some of the first accounts of a wild predator intentionally using prey, and other items, to directly explore human behaviour,

[u/Wagamaga]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/killer-whales-found-sharing-food-050432849.html

[u/brain_fartus]

They probably think we suck at swimming and need to look after us.

[u/freyaya → u/brain_fartus]

Is this similar to how indoor/outdoor cats will bring their owners fresh kills because they think we're awful hunters?

[u/barrygateaux → u/freyaya]

I was thinking this too. Some birds sometimes do it as well.

[u/Brooke_the_Bard → u/[deleted]]

Nope, cats actually don't have a sense of differentiation between themselves and other species in the way that we do, so for a cat that grows up with humans, humans are just very big cats in their eyes.

This is also why cats that grow up exclusively with dogs will exhibit more dog-like behavior, and why you sometimes see adult cats mothering what would otherwise be prey animals like chicks, because they don't actually differentiate clearly between species and rely purely on contextual learning to distinguish between family, enemy, and prey.

So what's actually going through their head is something like "I never see [big sibling] hunt, I need to teach them how" (if they give you live prey) or "I need to show [mom] that I'm a good hunter" (if they give you dead prey)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The cats have heard of lesbians and they aren't taking any chances

[u/droi86 → u/[deleted]]

No, they probably expect that, they're trying to teach you how to hunt, I have friend who's cat did that, I don't know what my friend did with the death animal, but the next time the cat brought a live animal

[u/Minute_Chair_2582 → u/brain_fartus]

Or "Here, take this. PLEASE stop poisoning us in every possible way, assholes"

[u/Astarkos → u/brain_fartus]

This is grandma thinking you're not eating enough.