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 ...
STOCKTON — The sight and smell of dozens, if not hundreds, of dead salmon rotting in the Pixley Slough behind John Muir ...
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still ...
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...
Though researchers have some best guesses, nobody seems to know for sure why exactly a killer whale in Washington state was ...
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.
New observations from photographers and researchers confirm that orcas are once again sporting fish as headgear ...
It’s a very sophisticated thing to do something for no purpose other than that it amuses you,” on researcher said.
The J-, K- and L-pods are down to just 73 orcas, according to the latest census completed in July by the Center for Whale ...
Experts say it may just be a "fad" that has emerged as the whales find more time to goof around. Read more at ...