PARTY WHALES

It’s a story that seems manufactured for maximum Instagram shareability, not unlike the proliferation of “Mob wife aesthetic” to conveniently coincide with the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos. Beginning in 2020, scientists have been noting a significant uptick in killer whale attacks on pleasure boats between the Strait of Gibraltar, a narrow body of water that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, and Galicia, a coastal province in northwestern Spain.