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 ...
In the 1980s, an orca on the West Coast of the United States started a strange trend that was quickly adopted not just by her ...
This week: the unsolved mystery of an 18th-century portrait, journalists leave X en masse, orcas wear “dead salmon hats,” ...
Not being a person to accept waiting very easily and just having enjoyed a great Thanksgiving dinner hosted by one of our ...
Deborah Giles told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that while this "salmon hat" phenomenon is certainly noteworthy, it's likely not a ...
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still ...
On October 25, a viral photo of a Southern Resident orca at Point No Point, Washington, was spotted with a salmon on its head ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks orca researcher Deborah Giles about behavior she witnessed recently: whales wearing salmon as hats.
Orcas were previously seen sporting salmon on their heads in the late 1980s, but it’s not clear what the behavior means.