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.
New observations from photographers and researchers confirm that orcas are once again sporting fish as headgear ...
Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...
Off the coast of Washington State, orcas have started wearing salmon hats again. The trend was first described in the […] ...
Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...
Fresh from last season’s power move of sinking boats in the Mediterranean sea, it would appear that this year orcas are ...
A resident orca off the coast of Washington state was recently spotted sporting a dead salmon on its head. The phenomenon was ...
An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.
The fashionistas of the ocean have spoken, and it’s official -- salmon hats are making a comeback among orcas.
Deborah Giles, the research director for the nonprofit Wild Orca, witnessed the return of the salmon hat trend while observing orcas in the Puget Sound. "We saw one with a fish on its head. So that ...
Orca whales have been spotted wearing dead salmon as hats, simultaneously charming and confounding scientists around the ...