I remember a biologist commenting about weird orcas behavior "They're smart enough that they could just be fucking with us"
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.
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.
They try to say "So long and thank you for the fish"
I saw a girl wearing parachute pants on Tuesday. Looks like orcas follow the same fashion cycle.
Does that include me?
I just don't understand how they wear them as hats and none of the articles have a picture.
thank you Lemmy user "Dumbass" for your valued contribution
rapidly abandoned after their parents start wearing it
mvp
I'm assuming it's just on the surface then? Seems like it would fall off if they went under water.
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
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
is the 40 year gap a natural phenomenon or human contributed?
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.
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.
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.
That reminds me... Did they stop tagging boats on the Atlantic North?
For now
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.
Her name was Lola, she was a show girl…. With a salmon on her head
She was a show girl With a salmon on her head Her name was Lola
Unintentional haiku?
Unintentionally yes.
I wonder if it's a religious ceremony.
Spotted the pre-historic archeologist
I may or may not have played Heaven's Vault recently...
It's a badly understood fertility ritual.
Cocaine runoff is a hell of a drug
planking
Finally, some good news
They're Warning us about over fishing and the damage we're causing to their habitats
Sometimes it's ok to just have some curious/silly news without it being used as an opportunity to remind people how terrible they are...
Or just a way to carry the snack for later.
Hipster orcas
Well now I gotta go change.
Waiting for us to nuke each other so they can reclaim the earth.
I read "Orcas" as "Oscar" for a second was very surprised as to what gad happened to the academy awards
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