It is often said that fashion is an eternal beginning. An adage that also seems to apply to orcas. In late October, off the coast of Washington State on the northwest coast of the United States, photographers and scientists observed several specimens carrying dead salmon on their heads. It seems that “hat salmon are making a comeback”writes the British daily The Times.
Because this is not the first time that one of these cetaceans has been seen wearing this hairstyle. In the summer of 1987, already off the coast of North America, a female was observed for the first time with a dead fish on her head. “The salmon headdress had its heyday in the 1980s, before disappearing as quickly as it appearedtell The Straits Times. By the summer of 1988, dead fish were already completely out of fashion, and no orca on the West Coast was showing off with a salmon on their head.”
It therefore took almost forty years to observe this behavior again in these marine animals. Without knowing more about what pushes them to act in this way. “But that doesn’t mean we’ll never unravel the mystery,”hope New Scientist. If this trend ad
