Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.
In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks orca researcher Deborah Giles about behavior she witnessed recently: whales wearing salmon as hats.
It’s often said that history repeats itself. Well, the same can be said about trends, and in the watery world of killer whales it holds true. Researchers recently observed a killer whale (orca) ...
CHANG: That makes me want to see a whole lot more orcas out there wearing salmon hats. GILES: Me too. CHANG: Deborah Giles - she's a killer whale researcher with Wild Orca and resident scientist ...
Deborah Giles told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that while this "salmon hat" phenomenon is certainly noteworthy, it's likely not a ...
This fall, whale watchers and scientists in Washington ... there have been no other further recent images of these orcas wearing salmon hats,” she adds. Deborah Giles, science and research ...
Not being a person to accept waiting very easily and just having enjoyed a great Thanksgiving dinner hosted by one of our ...
This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” ...