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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 04:22 PM
I thought killer whales themselves were actually dolphins. What the hey is a false killer whale? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 04:24 PM
If the mother is 19 years old how come this is the first I'm hearing of it? Somebody dropped the ball, dammit.
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This is exactly the sort of thing I like to know. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 04:33 PM
According to <a href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Pseudorca_crassidens.html">this site</a> they are different species but the same genus, so they're in the same category as lion-tiger hybrids. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 04:42 PM
I saw this on the news this morning thought nothing of it.
To think I could have had the kudos of starting a new thread :-( |
Myst
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 04:58 PM
I find these odd pairings of animals interesting for some reason. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 05:48 PM
Killer whales are in fact the largest of the dolphin "species." Meaning they are a type of dolphin. As Char noted they are in the same genus, as is the false killer whales which are slightly smaller and different then "true" killer whales. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 05:51 PM
Actually what I meant was they're in the same "family"... that being Delphinidae. It's been awhile since I was in school... please forgive. 😊 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 07:32 PM
there goes a narwhal... look out for that pirhana |
Raoul
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 07:45 PM
This Wholphin is not known to me, or any from The Land of My Birth. The older ones still speak, however, of days gone by, when fish were mated with mules to pull the barges. They were called BassAsses |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 07:50 PM
The BassAss had a mean streak, I am sad to say. When angered, they would spit a muddy, foogy mist out of the water at you. Suffice it to say, not for long were they welcome, these BassAss MudFoggers. Rrrraoul |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 07:50 PM
Could have been worse Raoul
It might have been Grizzleys mating with Donkeys
and producing BearAsses |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 08:16 PM
The Hasbro Toy company, way back in 1962, made a toy called "Odd Ogg", that was advertised as "Half Turtle and Half Frog." He was low to the ground, and battery powered. If you rolled balls at him, he came in your direction. I had one, you better believe I did. Couldn't stop singing the jingle: "Odd Ogg Odd Ogg half turtle and half frog". Still can't. Damn those Hassenfeld Brothers |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 08:28 PM
Hairy, I thought Odd Ogg was something you just came up with as a joke till I looked it up. 😉 It does look pretty cool. I found one on eBay selling at $77 with two days to go. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 09:00 PM
Odd Ogg's TV commercial had all the forest creatures gathered about a tree stump, to see the new hybrid animule, singing that damn song. It keeps me awake at night. Fish scare me, too. BassAsses, the most |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 | 09:51 PM
lol
I was trying to find the jingle and can't. Now I'm curious!
I still sing the theme song for the "army ants" commercial. (Not sure if they were here in the US or not, little ant figures dressed like army guys - you can see them <a href="http://www.virtualtoychest.com/armyants/armyantsorange.html">here.</a>
I loved those things. |
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 | 05:26 AM
I always thought these hybrid animals were infertile- this is certainly true for mules and i think also for 'ligers' (or 'tions')
perhaps an actual hoax for once?
on an unrelated note, there is a creationist 'textbook' for kids out there somewhere, which demonstrates the impossibility of evolution with pictures of the 'whalecow'- the front end of a cow with a huge whale tail. the impracticality of such an animal demonstrates that the process of animals evolving from being sea-bound to land-roaming is impossible. i think twas written by a chap called Dr Gish. |
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 | 11:08 AM
<a href="http://shop4.gospelcom.net/epages/AIGUK.storefront/en/product/10-1-003">This</a> is the book in question |
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 | 04:57 PM
I don't think all hybrids are necessarily sterile. The liger can breed, I believe. |
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 | 05:06 PM
I'm having a hard time believing this story. I'm pretty certain that hybrid animal are sterile, At least that's what every article I've read so has said. |
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 | 09:38 PM
I was on Oahu in the summer of '95, and the Wolphin in question IS real. I saw her myself. She's the lead attraction. I also have relatives that live on Oahu, and this story is true. It *IS* known that *SOME* hybrids are infertile but she isn't. |
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 | 01:04 PM
I have seen the Wolphin... I have done a lot of business in Hawaii. I'm not sure that all hybrids are sterile, I know that a lot of them are.
There have actually been a couple other Wolphin from what I have been told. |
Mark-N-Isa
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 | 04:39 PM
Most certainly not "all" hybrids are sterile... otherwise there would be no variation in species. For example, the many different breeds of dogs have come about through selective hybrid breeding, if all hybrids were sterile then there would only be one species of all animals. It might depend on how far "across" the family tree the hybrids roam as to whether or not they're sterile??? Just a thought... |
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 | 03:01 PM
If every species is related, through common ancestry, then you can eventualy connect all species through breeding. The obsticals are things such as blood type and sperm size.
The reason some species breed together better, is becouse they interbreed in cycles. The wolf will breed whith the coyotee when its numbers are low. This interbreeding is common today, becouse their numbers are low (thats are fault). The evolutionary tree twist like rosebushes wrapping around each other. Its only when a species is seperated from another for a long period of time that they grow apart. The changes become to severe to be reconciable. Also species don't change untill their numbers are low, becouse of sexual preferance. If the mutant is the only one left to f-ck its more likely to breed. A coyote wont score with a wolf unless the wolf has got nothing else to screw. This is why the number of fossils during a time of great change is few. I mean do you know how rare it is for a body to become a fossil?
So low population density equals change, and less bodies equals a lower likelyhood of finding any evidence.
Now if you want a hoax, talk to those I.D. f-cks in Kansas.
If you want to find real hoaxes check the skeptic societies homepage, they will find them for you. Their cool like that.
For instance the forged test results for prayer effects, and the forged test results for cannibus addiction test.
Or how about this one, the government says condoms have a 14 percent fail rate, but thats accounting for inconsistent use. If you don't use the condom how does it fail?
They say that you have to use it correctly to get the 3 to 1 percent failure rates (failure rates are for 1 years use) but then they wont tell you how to use them. Now thats bullshit.
http://www.skeptic.com is the place to go, for all your hoax finding needs. Also check the W.H.O website.
If you want to read a hoax, check out whitehouse.gov. Theyre filled with them. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 | 04:10 PM
Or how about this one, the government says condoms have a 14 percent fail rate, but thats accounting for inconsistent use. If you don't use the condom how does it fail?
This sounds very different to the statistics quoted by the UK government...
And my hoax finding needs are met here, thanks very much. |
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 | 07:25 PM
the wolphin is 100% real, i am a marine mammal and exotic animal trainer at the hawaii sea life park were she was born, her name is Kawili Kai which means "mix of the ocean" or "blend of the ocean" in polinesian. and ligers CAN breed |
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 | 09:42 PM
In addition to ligers, hinnies (that is, the offspring of a stallion and a jenny) are fertile. We don't see many hinnies around because they aren't bred often; they don't have the same size and strength as a mule and are seen as less useful.
A number of duck species also regularly interbreed and produce fertile offspring. The hybrid "picks" a species to mate with, and the genes are absorbed into one or the other species.
The "able to interbreed and produce fertile offspring" standard is a conveient and simple way of defining species boundaries. Too bad it doesn't work. :long: |
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 | 08:47 AM
man isa your hot |
Jesse
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 | 05:05 PM
I am appalled at this website where they are using SCIENCE to shrink KIller WHALES!!!
http://www.dwarforca.com
WE HAVE TO STOP THE FROM ADJUSTING WHALES AND PUTTING THEM INTO AQUARIUMS!!! |
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 | 02:23 PM
They were called BassAsses |
