Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still ...
A recent photo of an orca swimming with a salmon on its head has fueled speculation that the fad, first observed in the 1980s ...
An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.
The fashionistas of the ocean have spoken, and it’s official -- salmon hats are making a comeback among orcas.
Deborah Giles told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that while this "salmon hat" phenomenon is certainly noteworthy, it's likely not a ...
Off the coast of Washington State, orcas have started wearing salmon hats again. The trend was first described in the […] ...
It’s a very sophisticated thing to do something for no purpose other than that it amuses you,” on researcher said.
The salmon hat craze was first observed in 1987 when a female orca in the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific was seen ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks orca researcher Deborah Giles about behavior she witnessed recently: whales wearing salmon as hats.
West Coast killer whales were last spotted sporting expired salmon in the 1980s, according to Live Science. After a nearly 40 ...
Orca whales have been spotted wearing dead salmon as hats, simultaneously charming and confounding scientists around the ...
In 1987, a female orca near Puget Sound began wearing a dead salmon on her head. Other whales in her pod, along with two ...