Scientists observe orcas using kelp as a tool for grooming

I feel the world needs this story right now Killer whales 'massage' each other using kelp www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyqll5n2qro @CWROrcas @UniofExeter 🐳

Stroke me with kelp, big boy … widespread tool manufacture and usage in an endangered population of resident killer whales living in the Salish Sea. www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087214

💅 Not these orcas using kelp for their self care skin routine (possibly). #natureiscurious www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/science/orca-kelp-tool-grooming

"These whales have so much to teach us and that we are still just scratching the surface of their lives and behavior." The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know, and that so many claims of human exceptionalism don't hold up www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/killer-whales-kelp-grooming-tool-use