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JoshXXX

JoshXXX

Northborough, MA
March 2004

APR 16, 2005 01:33 AM

Snottlebocket said:

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).

[Edited on Apr 16, 2005 by JoshXXX]

undershaker

undershaker

Milwaukee, WI
November 2004

APR 16, 2005 01:40 AM

Wholphin? Monkey-man? Liger?

(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.

Cheevo

Cheevo

Saint Helena, CA
March 2003

APR 16, 2005 03:09 AM

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. confused

MistressMissy

mistressmissy

Grand Rapids, MI
March 2003

APR 16, 2005 07:15 AM

JayHawk said:
Anyone find this really amazing? Cross-bred animals are usually sterile.




yeah thats what i was thinking.
and it said this is the 3rd calf it's had. one died after birth and the other lived 9 years.

skeptik

skeptik

New Orleans, LA
February 2004

APR 16, 2005 07:06 PM

cheevocabra said:

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. confused


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.

almostfamous

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. surreal

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