Whales Have Memes

WHALES HAVE MEMES? Alder (A99) swims with a dead fish balanced on his head. Back in 1987, a K Pod orca started swimming everywhere with a dead salmon carefully balanced on the top of her head, and it soon became a popular Southern Resident fad as other orcas quickly started mimicking her behavior. pic.twitter.com/K5UsX3sOsO

A screenshot of a tweet jokingly asking whether whales have memes, followed by a story about an orca carrying a dead salmon on her head and other orcas copying her. The punchline compares animal imitation and shared fads to human internet memes, making it useful as an absurd reaction to discovering that animals also have trends. EN: A screenshot of a tweet jokingly asking whether whales have memes, followed by a story about an orca carrying a dead salmon on her head and other orcas copying her. The punchline compares animal imitation and shared fads to human internet memes, making it useful as an absurd reaction to discovering that animals also have trends.

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