• @nixcamic
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    8213 hours ago

    I just don’t understand how they wear them as hats and none of the articles have a picture.

  • @[email protected]
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    13514 hours ago

    I remember a biologist commenting about weird orcas behavior “They’re smart enough that they could just be fucking with us”

  • FuglyDuck
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    7914 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    9415 hours ago

    Can they live that long? Maybe one of them remembered and had a nostalgia moment, then the rest of the pod caught up

      • @[email protected]
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        154 hours ago

        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

      • @[email protected]
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        1411 hours ago

        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

      • @pntha
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        1714 hours ago

        is the 40 year gap a natural phenomenon or human contributed?

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          Sex gap, female orcas live up to 90 years while male orcas live around 50. Older female orcas help take care of the calfs in the pod and so therefore live longer. Some really old male orcas have been spotted but they are a very rare exception.

      • @[email protected]
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        2615 hours ago

        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.

      • Thassodar
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        412 hours ago

        Maybe they’re celebrating the damage humans are doing to themselves and are excited about a time where they’re once again the biggest brained, smartest mammal on earth.

        Maybe.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      1216 hours ago

      I saw a girl wearing parachute pants on Tuesday. Looks like orcas follow the same fashion cycle.

  • @satanmat
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    2815 hours ago

    Her name was Lola, she was a show girl…. With a salmon on her head

  • @[email protected]
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    712 hours ago

    They’re Warning us about over fishing and the damage we’re causing to their habitats