Orca whales wear dead salmon hats after ditching the trend for nearly 40 years proving fashion is cyclical across species.

[Jman]

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years
 

Fascinating study of these whales and what passes for fashion.

[discolé monade]

they prepare for battle.

[Dark_Cloud_Overhead]

What the actual fuck. ~check calendar~ Huh, it's not April. Really? Proof reality is stranger than fiction I guess.

[viperxmns]

WHERE'S THE PICS 

How do the salmon heads not just float away 

[André Toulon]

Meh, Orcas ain't cute

[discolé monade]

 

In the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific, one female orca from k-pod began carrying a dead salmon around on her nose. Over the next 5-6 weeks, the behavior spread, and by the end of it, orcas from her own and two other pods were wearing dead salmon hats. Then all of a sudden, the fad was over. Bar a few times the following summer – latecomers, like humans just now deciding to wear Uggs – the trend has never been seen again.

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[Sieg67]

So we're not so different after all.

[discolé monade]

1 hour ago, Sieg67 said:

So we're not so different after all.

except that humans have proven, they are, indeed, one of the dumbest animals on this planet. 

[Sieg67]

9 hours ago, viperxmns said:

WHERE'S THE PICS 

How do the salmon heads not just float away 

This one is from 87.

 

[1pooh4u]

Orcas need to start doing this in captivity but with the heads of their trainers. 

[Top Gun]

"I learned that the fish can also be used...as a hat!"

[molarbear]

On 11/29/2024 at 8:06 PM, 1pooh4u said:

Orcas need to start doing this in captivity but with the heads of their trainers. 

NO!

[naraku360]

So long and thanks for all the hats.

[1pooh4u]

7 hours ago, molarbear said:

NO!

I love Love Death and Robots. I forgot the name of that one. Good Traveling, I think?  
 

anyway, that would be cool if orcas could use the corpse to communicate w us

[discolé monade]

good traveling. 

love that series LDR