Since whales are teaming up with each other to take down yachts and teaching others how to do it I thought this would be a fun question.
If a majority of intelligent enough sea animals that could communicate with each other teamed up to mess with human activities in the sea who would win.
By the way for people that say that humans would obviously win we have already lost a war against emus before.
Humans.
We can be “not at sea” and still kill sea life, but dolphins can’t get on land.
We’re currently trying not to kill sea life and doing a pretty poor job of it. If we were trying we could do a number on marine mammals just by having the navy use their crazy powerful sonar all the time, instead of “minimally”.
“Ah, you’re trying to boop my ship. Have you considered having your inner ear destroyed so you can’t tell up from down, use echolocation, or communicate, resulting in a horrible death by drowning or beaching?”
Humor of it aside, the emu was was an attempt to kill the emus eating farmers crops where they used military resources to try to do pest control for people given vaguely subpar farmland. Turns out that stationary machine guns are not the best way to kill emus. After a few attempts only killed a couple thousand, they switched back to just having hunters do it and that got tens of thousands.
Later, they just used “fences”, which proved insurmountable to the emus, which were forced to just walk around the farms instead of cutting through.
What’s preventing dolphins from coming up on land?
They don’t have legs my friend.
They also overheat without the water to keep them cool.
Are you saying they’re too dumb to overcome those challenges?
It’s not their intelligence I’m concerned with my dude, but their inability to hold precision tools.
I hate to be the one to remind you, but they can only use their mouths, and it’s really hard to mine or build complex machines underwater.
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
Bless your heart.