30 furries have been banned from EnCapCon for harassing someone with a tuna persona.
Many more furries came out of the woodwork to defend the bullies.
The group collectively was adamant that tuna is exclusively prey, despite tuna being an apex predator in its environment.
There were even people with crab personas saying this, despite the fact that the main predator of crabs is tuna.
didn't you see the promo earlier? telling you not to harass the other attendees.
the con does not care for what's a trope in the furry fandom. you harass people, you're out.
end of story.
and while we're talking narrative, let's get some facts straight.
Tuna eat many smaller fish, including but not limited to..
pufferfish
reef fish
ocean salmon
catsharks
many types of wrasse
flatfish
rays
eels
lungfish
barracuda
and often the majority of a spawn from larger fish such as sharks.
sure adult sharks prey on them and most marine mammals, but that's about it, except for a handful of seabird species and what's undeniably their most prevalent predator, one that kills 99.999% of all tuna, that being human beings.
apart from that single species, tuna populations are almost unaffected by any predators on the whole.
tuna are fast, strong, slippery, most importantly covered sharp parts, and can change depth in the ocean from surface to bed and vice versa in mere minutes.
their bodies are a wonder of oxygen level control, water pressure adaptability, and thermal regulation.
science still doesn't know how do it.
they could even survive in space for up to 20 minutes, which is impressive without an oxygen supply.
some tuna even eat
seabirds,
saltwater crocodiles,
sea otters
and baby dolphins.
to say tuna is prey just because humans can spread a net over several miles going from surface to bed, completely enclosing large groups of them inside without any chance of escape, really does not give true respect to the species.
some fishing trawlers have even been sunk by the presence of small whale groups in the enclosed area scaring the tuna away in a certain direction and the force of the shoal of tuna pushing against the net, without help from the whale pod, has dragged the tug boats to the bottom of the sea in minutes, and yes, this was in modern times, one such case in fact occurred last year, off the coast of Australia.
i think you need to know how large a single tuna is just to get an idea of what i mean.
this is their average size.
you wolf and cat furries think in a 1 on 1 you're gonna somehow come out on top when the two of you are in the water?
these things kill more people annually than dolphins and sharks.
you're deluded.
