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 ...

Recently, Mrs. Morgan’s fourth- and fifth-grade class at Orcas Christian School embarked on an unforgettable field trip to the Whale Museum in Friday Harbor. During the trip, students engaged in an ...

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

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 […] ...

Paris fashion week may have come and gone, but just off the west coast of North America orcas are strutting their stuff and bringing back some retro marine styles. That is to say, killer whales have ...

Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...

Scientists in New Zealand are carrying out a dissection of a spade-tooth whale, which is one of the rarest whale species in ...

The salmon hat craze was first observed in 1987 when a female orca in the Puget Sound area of the northeast Pacific was seen ...

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