The Great White (Killer) Whale???

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    tybird wrote:
    Order Cetacea (dolphins, porpoises, and whales)
    Family Delphinidae (dolphins, killer whales, pilot whales, and relatives)

    The order is considered by some to part of a Superorder with the even-toed ungulates (camels, deer, wild/domestic pigs, llamas, goats, bovines, antelope & others)

    http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Cetacea.html#Cetacea

    true, while orcas are members of the family delphinidae, this family is further divided into the sub-families, delphininae and globicephalinae. it is the latter which the orca belongs to, whereas the dolphin we are all so familiar with, the bottle nosed dolphin or tursiops belongs to the delphininae sub-family.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    catefrances wrote:
    true, while orcas are members of the family delphinidae, this family is further divided into the sub-families, delphininae and globicephalinae. it is the latter which the orca belongs to, whereas the dolphin we are all so familiar with, the bottle nosed dolphin or tursiops belongs to the delphininae sub-family.
    You're a splitter. :D:):o
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    hahahaha... there's been a serious amount of google searching been going on in this thread :p
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    A whale is a mammal not a fish you idiots!!!!!

    ;)

    :p
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    hahahaha... there's been a serious amount of google searching been going on in this thread :p
    No by me, I have the site that I used book-marked. I used in a Field Vertebrate Study class last Spring. :D
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    tybird wrote:
    No by me, I have the site that I used book-marked. I used in a Field Vertebrate Study class last Spring. :D
    :D fair enough.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    tybird wrote:
    You're a splitter. :D:) : o

    is that so? :)
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    hahahaha... there's been a serious amount of google searching been going on in this thread

    i dont need to google when it comes to orcas. they've been an avid interest of mine for nigh on quarter of a century. :p:D
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    catefrances wrote:
    is that so? :)



    i dont need to google when it comes to orcas. they've been an avid interest of mine for nigh on quarter of a century. :p:D
    So...;) :p
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    tybird wrote:
    So...;) :p

    so...a needle pulling thread... :p:D
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    catefrances wrote:
    so...a needle pulling thread... :p:D
    So...an album by Peter Gabriel :p
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    tybird wrote:
    So...an album by Peter Gabriel :p

    in your eyes perhaps. ;):p:D
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    catefrances wrote:
    in your eyes perhaps. ;):p:D
    the light, the heat :p
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    More Dolphin news....

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/nz.whales.ap/index.html

    Dolphin rescues stranded whales

    WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A dolphin swam up to two distressed whales that appeared headed for death in a beach stranding in New Zealand and guided them to safety, witnesses said Wednesday.

    The actions of the bottlenose dolphin -- named Moko by residents who said it spends much of its time swimming playfully with humans at the beach -- amazed would-be rescuers and an expert who said they were evidence of the species' friendly nature.

    The two pygmy sperm whales, a mother and her calf, were found stranded on Mahia Beach, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) northeast of the capital of Wellington, on Monday morning, said Conservation Department worker Malcolm Smith.

    Rescuers worked for more than one hour to get the whales back into the water, only to see them strand themselves four times on a sandbar slightly out to sea. It looked likely the whales would have to be euthanized to prevent them suffering a prolonged death, Smith said.

    "They kept getting disorientated and stranding again," said Smith, who was among the rescuers. "They obviously couldn't find their way back past (the sandbar) to the sea."

    Along came Moko, who approached the whales and led them 200 meters (yards) along the beach and through a channel out to the open sea.

    "Moko just came flying through the water and pushed in between us and the whales," Juanita Symes, another rescuer, told The Associated Press. "She got them to head toward the hill, where the channel is. It was an amazing experience. The best day of my life."

    Anton van Helden, a marine mammals expert at New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, said the reports of Moko's rescue were "fantastic" but believable because the dolphins have "a great capacity for altruistic activities."

    These included evidence of dolphins protecting people lost at sea, and their playfulness with other animals.

    "We've seen bottlenose dolphins getting lifted up on the noses of humpback whales and getting flicked out of the water just for fun," van Helden said.

    "But it's the first time I've heard of an inter-species refloating technique. I think that's wonderful," said van Helden, who was not involved in the rescue but spoke afterward to Smith.

    Smith speculated that Moko responded after hearing the whales' distress calls.

    "It was looking like it was going to be a bad outcome for the whales ... then Moko just came along and fixed it," he said. "They had arched their backs and were calling to one another, but as soon as the dolphin turned up they submerged into the water and followed her."

    After the rescue, Moko returned to the beach and joined in games with local residents, he said.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    ah wow tybird :o what a fantastic story... thank you :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    ah wow tybird :o what a fantastic story... thank you :)
    You are quite welcome.....always looking to spread sunshine. :p
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

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