Humans have always been in conflict with other animals over food sources and territorial rights. Take for example the constant attacks on villages in Africa and India by herds of elephants. The increased numbers of shark attacks in Australia probably has a slightly different root cause. And in North America grizzly and black bear attacks are becoming more common. But what makes the current Orca situation off the coast of Spain so different is the complete lack of factually based evidence for a motive.

The Police Report reads - “saw floating in the water the left arm of a human being, which had apparently been wrenched from the body at the shoulder joint. We retrieved the arm from the water and on examining it found that it had two large incised wounds on the upper and lower parts respectively. We also found that on the inside forearm there was a tattoo mark of two men in the fighting attitude.