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Memes about animal resistance are everywhere — here’s why you shouldn’t laugh off rebellious orcas and sea otters too quickly

  • Written by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
Memes about animal resistance are everywhere — here’s why you shouldn’t laugh off rebellious orcas and sea otters too quicklyIt's tempting to envision orcas attacking yachts as the forward troops in an animal uprising.Jackson Roberts/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Memes galore centered on the “orca revolution” have inundated the online realm. They gleefully depict orcas launching attacks on boats in the Strait of Gibraltar and off the Shetland coast.

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