After being captured on video purposefully startling an orca that was swimming with its calf, a belly-flopping man was forced to pay the price for “body slamming” the marine mammal. Was it enough? You decide. Thanks to video footage posted to Instagram, a 50-year-old New Zealand man from Auckland caught the attention of Hayden Loper, principal investigation officer at the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC). In the video, the unnamed man is seen jumping into the water off the coast of New Zealand, close to an orca swimming with its calf, as his friends laugh, cheer, and egg him on. However, the DOC didn’t think it was a laughing matter…
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