Captain_Sammich said:
I thought killer whales were actually dolphins, scientifically speaking. So says my recent issue of National Geographic with a huge feature on killer whales.
they are, the killer whale or orca is the largest of the dolphin species.
i have no idea what a false killer whale is though, never heard of that one so perhaps it's a whale that looks like a orca.
even then, quite amazing that a 30 foot orca manages to mate with a 9 ft dolphin.
False killer whales are just killer whales that were acquitted of the charges. Seriously though, they're called false killer whales because they aren't Orcas, but display the same behavioral patterns (attacking and eating other marine mammals).
(Of course, I have to mention the last, as Napoleon Dynamite's core audience -- well, other core audience, after Mormons-helping-Mormons get the top gross at the box-office -- is the SG readership.)
Forget all that sorry...
I want the Manatee-man, or Man-man.
I think s/he would be amphibious. Which would be tight, so tight... Like a nun's cunt, as my freshman year roommate lo, those many years ago, would say.
JayHawk said:
Anyone find this really amazing? Cross-bred animals are usually sterile.
Yeah, this is really weird. It is my understanding that one of the defining points of a species is the ability to mate and produce fertile offspring. If that's true then wouldn't this make the 'false' killer whale and the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin different breeds of the same species? I'm confued.
JayHawk said:
Anyone find this really amazing? Cross-bred animals are usually sterile.
Yeah, this is really weird. It is my understanding that one of the defining points of a species is the ability to mate and produce fertile offspring. If that's true then wouldn't this make the 'false' killer whale and the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin different breeds of the same species? I'm confued.
Actually, that was the classical definition of species. In recent decades, however, nomenclature definitions have evolved (so to speak), and most biologists no longer stress fertile interbreeding as part of the definition.
Since Darwin, that kind of thing has become sort of irrelevant. And really just semantics.
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almostfamous
NEWSWIRE
United Kingdom
APR 16, 2005 07:17 PM
14 foot, 2000lb whale and a 6 foot, 400lb dolphin?
wow, those sea life centres really are like prisons, i bet that dolphin was swimming funny for a week.
JoshXXX
Northborough, MA
March 2004
APR 16, 2005 01:33 AM