An orca has been spotted wearing a salmon hat for the first time since 1987. On October 25, a viral photo of a Southern ...

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 ...

In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has ...

Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still ...

An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.

Another orca wearing a salmon hat was photographed during a 2019 survey by the marine conservation group Ocean Wise. In a February 2022 Instagram post, researchers wrote that the orca was A99 ...

On October 25, a viral photo of a Southern Resident orca at Point No Point, Washington, was spotted with a salmon on its head ...

It’s a very sophisticated thing to do something for no purpose other than that it amuses you,” on researcher said.

Though researchers have some best guesses, nobody seems to know for sure why exactly a killer whale in Washington state was ...

Deborah Giles told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm that while this "salmon hat" phenomenon is certainly noteworthy, it's likely not a ...

West Coast killer whales were last spotted sporting expired salmon in the 1980s, according to Live Science. After a nearly 40 ...

A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...