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Sascha Pare

Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years

Collage with two pictures of an orca and a chum salmon in water.

Northwest Pacific orcas have started wearing salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s, researchers say.

Last month, scientists and whale watchers spotted orcas (Orcinus orca) in South Puget Sound and off Point No Point in Washington State swimming with dead fish on their heads.

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