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

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

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

The fashionistas of the ocean have spoken, and it’s official -- salmon hats are making a comeback among orcas.

Orca whales have been spotted wearing dead salmon as hats, simultaneously charming and confounding scientists around the ...

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 ...

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

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks orca researcher Deborah Giles about behavior she witnessed recently: whales wearing salmon as hats.

I n late October, observers off the coast of Washington State witnessed an unusual sight: orcas swimming with dead salmon ...

Orcas have been spotted wearing dead salmon on their head like hats, a trend that hasn't been popular with the whales since ...