i remember reading that orcas have cultural fads. it was fashionable in some orca communities to swim around with a dead fish hat for a while. i would consider that art adjacent https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/killer-whale-orca-trends
...a female [orca] in the Pacific Northwest’s Puget Sound was spotted wearing a dead salmon draped over her nose. The fad didn’t just spread within the trendsetter’s pod (her maternal family group). Over the next six weeks, individuals within all three pods in the area—collectively known as the Southern Residents—were observed sporting veils of decaying salmon. Then, just as suddenly as it began, the fish went out of fashion. More than 30 years later, researchers still aren’t sure why it caught on in the first place.
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