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 ...
Orcas were previously seen sporting salmon on their heads in the late 1980s, but it’s not clear what the behavior means.
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and ...
Interestingly, while the lipid-rich livers are thought to be the primary target of these attacks, there was no photographic ...
King salmon, or chinook, are a critical part of the diet of Southern Resident killer whales. The population of Southern ...
Researchers have documented killer whales working as a team to prey on whale sharks in the Gulf of California.
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...
Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...
In the attacks, caught on video between 2018 and 2024, the orcas killed young whale sharks that gathered in the Gulf of ...