Maybe it makes them taste neat? Also orcas are smart enough to just do stuff for the hell of it, so there’s always that yeah
I remember a biologist commenting about weird orcas behavior “They’re smart enough that they could just be fucking with us”
It is terribly disappointing that there are articles about this that have either no photos of salmon hats, or they are clearly photoshopped.
If you actually want to see a orca donning a salmon hat…
I just don’t understand how they wear them as hats and none of the articles have a picture.
rapidly abandoned after their parents start wearing it
thank you Lemmy user “Dumbass” for your valued contribution
I’m assuming it’s just on the surface then? Seems like it would fall off if they went under water.
Everything old becomes new again.
Retro fashion.
Maybe they’re wearing them ironically.
And then the younger orcas won’t get why it’s ironic and will think it’s actually cool and wear them sincerely, and it will slowly become unfashionable again. Until another 30-40 years pass.
I saw a girl wearing parachute pants on Tuesday. Looks like orcas follow the same fashion cycle.
It’s well known that orcas pick up “games” that are basically fads. They find stuff to entertain themselves and keep at it until they grow bored of it.
Basically pre-internet humans.
I’m only just now realising fads/trends seem to be way less strong these days.
Like, there’s a 00’s vibe, sort of, 10’s vibe??? Maybe?
But nowhere near as strong as practically every decade before that.
Perhaps it’s just there’s way more variety to bandwagon now that every niche is connected around the globe.
My random thoughts for your reading.
Internet culture has very strong trends. MLG era, deepfried pictures, amongus era, whatever people on tiktok are watching (brainrot), …
When I say strong, I mean that a trend is it dominates and defines as decade. All those things you mentioned are trends that you associate with different times, but there are far fewer things you can dress up as and people will think: ohhhh are you “from the 2000s”.
They exist, just I’d argue it’s not as strong as the 90s
I think the internet just caused the trend lifecycle to become much shorter. So short that they only last fractions of a decade now.
If you have something that slightly resembles an amongus astronaut as your pfp people will think: ohhh are you “from the early 2020s”
You can’t dress up as it though when those trends happen over the internet.
That reminds me… Did they stop tagging boats on the Atlantic North?
For now
Can they live that long? Maybe one of them remembered and had a nostalgia moment, then the rest of the pod caught up
50-90 year life span
is the 40 year gap a natural phenomenon or human contributed?
Why was my first thought “ur mom has a 50-90 year life span (hope she joyfully exceeds/ed it)”
Anyway that’s cool, thanks for the SeaFax
Grandpa orca trying to amuse a baby
So I wore an salmon on my head, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an salmon on my head, which was the style at the time. I didn’t have any pink salmon, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big white ones…
– Grampa Orca
I just hope the young orcas are doing it ironically.
Her name was Lola, she was a show girl…. With a salmon on her head
