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 ...
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still ...
The sight and smell of dozens, if not hundreds, of dead salmon rotting in the Pixley Slough behind John Muir Elementary ...
The salmon hat craze was first observed in 1987 when a female orca in the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific was seen ...
An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.
Deborah Giles told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that while this "salmon hat" phenomenon is certainly noteworthy, it's likely not a ...
Though researchers have some best guesses, nobody seems to know for sure why exactly a killer whale in Washington state was ...
It’s a very sophisticated thing to do something for no purpose other than that it amuses you,” on researcher said.
West Coast killer whales were last spotted sporting expired salmon in the 1980s, according to Live Science. After a nearly 40 ...
About 40 years ago, researchers noticed a population of orcas had begun swimming around with dead fish on their heads, and ...
Experts say it may just be a "fad" that has emerged as the whales find more time to goof around. Read more at ...