>Killer Whale
>False Killer Whale
I don't get it, how come the only flesh eating predatory dolphins are not called dolphins? What are these scientists trying to hide?
>Killer Whale. >False Killer Whale
>Killer Whale
>False Killer Whale
I don't get it, how come the only flesh eating predatory dolphins are not called dolphins? What are these scientists trying to hide?
orcas the nature's ni**ers
did they both stepped on a lego?
Beware of the imposters
>Hey, melon head!
Scientists didn't coin the term, retarded normoids did
We live in a world of specialization where we are going to be ignorant fucking retards about a lot of things that we don't have to learn about and are going to annoy the more knowledgeable people endlessly, that's the price for a functioning civilization
Imagine evolving for millions of years just to be called a fake version of another animal
its like false map turtles, which doesnt make any sense because theyre in the same same family as map turtles
theres also the false gharial, which is more related to a gharials than crocodiles, which i wouldve called a broad snoutted gharial at that point
the false potato beetle is an actual fake because it looks like a potato beetle but isnt bad like the real ones
but king snakes evolved to look like fake coral snakes with classic batesian mimicry
eating predatory dolphins aren't called dolphins
Do I have to write my fucking essay again? You also failed to include pilot whales, pygmy killer whales and melon-headed whales. To answer your question: they're called whales because they look different and are larger than what people perceived as 'dolphin', the pygmy killer whale being an exception in regards to size.
>pilot whales, pygmy killer whales and melon-headed whales.
Those are just standard fish eating dolphins. They're nothing like Orcas and FKW.
i'm assuming this is /cetacean/
do wolphins have anything special about them?
Non-autists have already internalized that all dolphins are whales anyway and thus don't get hung up on the name.
Love how their name implies they're fakers
It's a miss translation of latin for "whale killer"
Romance language put the adjective before the noun
Wrong, it's not a mistranslation, and Orca is the actual Latin derived name.
>false killer whale
What kind of bs name is that. Imagine calling chimps "false gorillas".
I had a conversation with one when I was sitting on a buoy once.
what did it say anon
Just talked about favorite animals. We didn't have any common ground because she was from the water.
Snorky please
forgot pic
because dolphins and porpoises are whales, they just have special names that nerds can't get over.
would sperm whales lose their whale status if they were called something else?
>porpoises
why do killer whales bully porpoises but not dolphins
Everyone bullies porpoises. Sexually frustrated male bottlenose dolphins kill them for fun and sea lions off of the Netherlands prey on them. Porpoises have no defense against anything.
are porpoises the Wauf and reddit of the water kingdom
How did he get there?
Poor guys
They dont even kill them they torture and rape them, bottlenoses are the only known animal to practice sadomaschism
>orcas don't bully dolphins
Wow, I didn't know they could jump that high
Have you never seen Free Willy?
Wow that's awesome
brutal mogging
they're called whale killers in other languages, killer whale is a mistranslation.
>The only flesh eating dolphins
All dolphins are predatory flesh eaters.
fish is okay for vegetarians, its not meat
Ah yes, fish is my favorite vegetable!
Yes, fish and chicken are the vegetables of the meat world.
Thats called pescetarianism
No it isn't, if you eat fish you're not vegetarian.
I shouldn't have to say this but fish is not a vegetable, it's meat.
If you eat no other meat but fish you're a pescetarian.
Not to mention that eating seafood is way more environmentally harmful than eating land animals and is disruptive of the habitat and food cycle of marine animals. Freshwater fish caught from lakes or rivers are ok ig
>fish is okay for vegetarians
You all laugh but I knew a girl who thought chicken was a vegetable
>I knew a girl
well there's your problem
I think OP is referring to flesh from mammals, eating fish is pretty standard in the sea.
False killer whales eat mammals?
Yes, they have been known to prey on other cetaceans.
Cool
They only prey on disgusting sharks, they aren't known to eat humans
Sharks are important animals and they're not sadistic like dolphins can be
Sharks are retarded and I'm glad they're killer whale food
Sharks serve more of a role in an ecosystem than orcas do
Everything useful orcas do sharks have already been doing by themselves
They're pure evolutionary morons
>Sharks serve more of a role in an ecosystem than orcas
I am not the guy you responded to but you're comparing an entire family to a species. Of course sharks are important but that's because there's a variety of them and each of them have their own differences in the ecosystem.