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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

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

www.livescience.com

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

www.livescience.com

dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago
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Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
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    Dude that author should be ashamed of themselves. How could you report on the topic and NOT provide a pic? Geesh.

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      So they stretch it over their fin or what, how is it staying on

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        Through sheer audacity

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        I was thinking, perhaps by sucking through the blowhole, but I haven’t looked it up yet so don’t trust me

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          Does the blowhole do in? Would that not make it a suckhole? I am admittedly ignorant in whale anatomy.

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            I thought the blowhole had reverse ?? like, this is what they breathe in through, isn’t it ?

            Apparently yes : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_(anatomy)

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              Yeah it definitely must be, here I am thinking they’re mouth breathers.

          • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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            It can go from suck to blow.

            • espentan@lemmy.world
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              Yeah, my blowhole does that, too.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      🏅

    • StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world
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      A jaunty chapeau! Perched just so!

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        *Salmoned just so!

        (perch are too freshwater for this trend)

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      In my experience, finding a relevant image in an online article is a 50-50

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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      stylish

    • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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      She had style! She had flair! She was there…

      That’s how she became- the Orca!

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    Makes sense. Fashion is cyclical.

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    • bulwark@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, these young orcas today think they know it all. Always vandalizing yachts, and harassing the poor seals. I’m like just eat your food. Stop flinging it around.

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    It’s not too late!

     

    • MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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      Ahh yes, MOGA. Make Ocean Great Again. Those guys.

  • I'll be on ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com@sh.itjust.works
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    it's called fashion Brenda look it up

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      This for some reason made me think of Anya Taylor Joy

      • I'll be on ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com@sh.itjust.works
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        She could definitely pull of the look…

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    It’s a sign. People are going to start planking again.

    • heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Plot twist it was the salmon all the time

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    I’m almost certain orcas have near human level intelligence but because of their lack of suitable appendages, this is their only way to show it.

    They are trying to talk to us and we are too stupid to listen.

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      “near human level intelligence” well, they are smarter then the average US citizen, that’s for sure. I prefer to wear a dead salmon as a hat a million times over voting for Trump. It’s the smarter choice. Orca’s are like dolphins:

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    Only 80s orcas will understand it.

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    “oh, so we stopped being weird and y’all still made anti planet governments in charge? okay. then we’re going back to being weird and violent. fuck you”

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    Under water, with no hands, how are they getting the fish in place? And perhaps more difficult, how do they keep it there? Anyone aware of a video?

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      I’m completely guessing, are they able to create suction with their blowhole?

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        Some people have posted pictures in the thread now, and it looks like you might be correct. Seems odd - the blowhole is analogous to a nostril. Sucking something against your nose a swimming seems like it would be uncomfortable.

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          Fashion is almost always uncomfortable

          • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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            Beauty is pain; and pain beauty.

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            Correct! High heels are seldom comfortable and rarely rational.

            Maybe the orcas are trying to show off that they are hard and can hold their breath longer?

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    They’re trying to show us the destruction we’re causing

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      Jailbreak from the factory farm. “Quick, no time to explain! Pretend you’re my hat!”

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        The Pixar film nobody asked for, but really needed.

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    Whale skibidi

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      Skibidy Salmon dum! dum! dum! yes! yes!

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    '90’s fashion is making a comeback here too, but damn… Didn’t expect that to extend to the ocean

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    Its called fashion, look it up.

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      Fishion

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        It’s spelled “fission” and has nothing to do with salmon hats…

        /s

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          You’ll change your tune when orcas develop infinitely renewable cold fusion, and salmon hats are the direct precursor to this discovery

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    So it’s not just humans who are into the 80s…

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