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somehow she was fertile and able to make children, her daughter still lives to this day

These animals are used to being feed and in human care. Doubt that they could survive an enviroment that is highly competitive and survival

The mom is a really small dolphin while his dad was a 14 feet false killer whale. Like how'd did that even happen

Rebecca Michael Kekaimalu isn’t part orca, she’s part False Killer Whale. A little known fact is that while all dolphins are whales, not all whales are dolphins. Sorta like how all retrievers are dogs but not all dogs are retrievers.

I know that false killer whales are different from orcas. I'm just putting that though out there about a bottlenose and orca hybrid.

I'm not disputing what you wrote, but keeping on calling the father a whale makes me gnash my teeth. a false killer whale is a dolphin species despite the name. And while they are quite big for dolphins, it is not really that surprising that it could happen, especially in a amusement park, although the wild nature also actually have quite a lot of hybrids between different species. Regarding the size difference, it doesn't seem to hinder dogs a lot if given the chance to mate with a dog of a different breed.

I know you said this 4 years ago, but just here to set the record straight. The comparison to dog breeds is NOT accurate, since all domestic dogs are the same species. False killer whales and bottlenose dolphins are certainly not the same species. Because the term “species” is generally defined as separate groups that cannot create reproductively viable offspring together, the distinction is certainly relevant here.

Dumbass, they're not dolphins shithead

No, they also exist in the wild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin

Actually the source they cite at that part also speaks about captive wholphins. There are other kinds of hybrid dolphins in the wild, like Risso's/bottlenose or bottlenose/spotted.

its not artificial

But wholphins haven't been encountered in the wild. So it's artificial.

Actually they are thought to occur naturally, they're just exceptionally rare.

+Jane Wu They don't do "tricks". Everything they do is natural. They just spyhop or jump out of the water. They are trained since way before 2008, only Blackfish made "free da whalez" something trendy, like a fashion. Let's hope that SeaWorld's Blue World Project will stop this ignorant fashion.

Forced? They get food if they do tricks. That's why they do them, to get treats.

Is it hard for people to understand this?

***** These animals get fed outside of their shows. The show food is just treats. Please, do your research first.

MrRandomgamer Your logic is reversed. Besides from these treats that they take for their relatively easy performances they also have their scheduled meal. In the wild they would have to find it by their own or else they die. That's what dolphins do in the ocean all day. They hunt. For them there's no such thing as free life and natural beauty. They have the same life as all wild animals. Natiral does not equal better.

These animals want treats. They get those when they perform tricks.

+Mycenaea Yeah who wants to be fed regularly , Stimulated with trainers often when you can get murdered by a false killer whale or pilot whale or end up in a dolphin slaughter in japan or the faroe islands right

+ahe detahe shut the fuck up. theyre meant to be free not captive. period.

essie1017 If we never brought them into captivity , They would still be slaughtered all over the world and used for target practice .

+Uwanda Roberts It depends on where you go, but I know that in the Netherlands they are no longer permitted to capture wild animals and put them in parks. The only animals that are in the park have to be born there or have to have been brought in due to sickness with no possible means of return to the wild. There was one that was actually sold for one euro at the time due to the fact that it was in huge debt even though it is the most popular on in the Netherlands, do not underestimate how much it cost to keep animals. As much as I would love to see animals being returned to the wild it is not possible. You can't let animals back into the wild after being held captive for some time, they actually loose very important instincts that they need to be able to survive in the wild and you can't just teach them what to do either. I have worked with wild dolphins before (ones that beached themselves and were nourished back to health and then released) and there was one young one that they were actually getting worried about because he got way too interactive with humans in just 3 months, he could have become too comfortable being feed and having human contact to the point that he could die if they released him (they eventually did and it went well). We were not aloud to get neer the water or practically look at them (only at a distance for observation) just to make sure that they stay wild.

+Uwanda Roberts They don't even think of it, ignorant. The dolphins only care about food. They find it troubling to offer to the trainer the behaviour he wants so that they can be fed but they always find out very quickly. If they had a problem they would hardly perform.

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Well said my humanist friend

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Apollon Abaddon the difference between a bottle-nose and the false killer whale is just skin color and socio-economics.

Apollon Abaddon you can joke about discrimination but chinese exclusively cut off the penis' of tigers to stick in their soup because they consider ligers 'inferior'.

Apollon Abaddon the submissive thing is definitely very myth based. they're happily going feminist in asia right now and they are known to be very controlling in their own way if they have some kind of leverage. they probably play submissive to hook white men sick of girlpower cunts then show their true nature relatively quickly. probably more greedy/materialistic than white women also, on average. personality is a problem with asians ... as funny as that sounds. the korean guy who sued his wife for not telling him about her massive plastic surgery job on the face, and bearing him an ugly kid ... is a demonstration of just how absurd and ridiculous this world is right now.

Still a hybrid, but like, a subspecies hybrid. Like a Bengal tiger Siberian tiger hybrid.

She is all dolphin. Specifically, a hybrid between a false killer WHale and a bottlenose dOLPHIN. So, wholphin.

FActas !

Yeah but the false killer whale is like twice the size

@@kidyomu89 Not exactly. you're talking about two regional variations of the same species. the dolphins isn't a species, it's a group of relatively closely related species, like for example canines (dholes, jackals, wolfs, coyotes etc). And while much closer related to one another than to (true) whales, they aren't all super close.