1980s fashion returns… for killer whales! Orcas are spotted wearing salmon as 'hats' nearly 40 years after they were spotted enjoying the bizarre trend

Killer whales person been spotted wearing dormant food connected their heads - a look they were seen sporting astir 40 years agone by researchers. 

Images person surfaced of orcas crossed Pudget Sound successful the Pacific Northwest wearing salmon connected their heads successful caller weeks. 

But this is not the archetypal clip the deadly whales person been seen sporting the alternatively unsocial look. 

Back successful 1987, a pistillate orca disconnected the US westbound seashore was seen with a dormant salmon resting connected the apical of her head.  

The look appeared to drawback connected erstwhile different pistillate whales began to aquatics astir with their 'fish hats'. 

Their unusual behaviour had ne'er been seen before, capturing the involvement of researchers who saw it as example of an orca 'fad', arsenic the enactment appeared to dispersed from slayer whale to slayer whale, contempt serving nary purpose. 

The inclination was shortlived, however, with scientists near to wonderment wherefore the marine animals ever started wearing the food successful the archetypal place.

But arsenic salmon hats are backmost successful manner among orcas successful the region, researchers accidental it is imaginable that the aforesaid whales from 1987 are simply trying to relive their youth.

Other reasons for their behaviour could beryllium linked to a larger colonisation of salmon successful the waters this year, and due to the fact that they person an abundance of food astir them, it is imaginable they mightiness beryllium redeeming them arsenic a snack for later. 

Images of the fahsionable slayer whales travel aft a family of monolithic orcas were captured connected dystopian video footage aft they were spotted gliding done the waters of Canada.

False Creek Ferries, a section ferry institution successful the area, was traveling from the westbound extremity of downtown Vancouver to Kitsilano Beach erstwhile passengers were stunned with 4 astonishment visitors - a 26-year-old parent slayer whale and her 3 calves wrong conscionable 10 feet of the boat.

'It was beauteous surreal,' Jack Hemsworth, the skipper of the ferry, told CityNews. 'It was beauteous brainsick to spot however large they truly are, due to the fact that they were bigger than the boat.'

The video shared to societal media by the ferry institution captured the transient slayer whales - which are besides known arsenic Bigg's slayer whales - arsenic they silently glided done the harbor past a enactment of high-rise buildings that served arsenic their picture-perfect backdrop.

Amazed passengers tin beryllium heard successful the inheritance successful implicit awe implicit the stunning show - 'wowing' each clip the pod appeared backmost to the surface.