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Fashion is cyclical (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by dil to c/[email protected]
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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] 85 points 4 days ago (2 children)

50-90 year life span

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days 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 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Grandpa orca trying to amuse a baby

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 10 points 3 days ago

I just hope the young orcas are doing it ironically.