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    Experts initially thought that White Gladis may be exacting revenge for an injury she had suffered as a result of a boat strike, and passing the behaviour on to her relatives.

    Since the encounters first made the headlines, however, some scientists have said it is more likely that the incidents are a form of game, since the orcas lose interest once the rudder is broken.

    ‘They’re pushing, pushing, pushing – boom! It’s a game,’ said, Renaud de Stephanis, president of Conservation, Information and Research on Cetaceans (CIRCE).

    ‘That’s all it is. Imagine a kid of six, seven years, with a weight of three tonnes. That’s it, nothing less, nothing more. If they wanted to wreck the boat, they would break it in 10 minutes’ time.’