is a miniature dolphin real?
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Maybe the Supreme Court could declare them to be fish.
They did declare tomatos to be vegetables, after all. Or is that tomatoes? Mr. Quayle?
They did declare tomatos to be vegetables, after all. Or is that tomatoes? Mr. Quayle?
Hey, Shaun. There is a lot of silly stuff on this forum, but listen to what these people say when they are not being silly. We were all newbies once.
(Oh, yeah. Listen to me, going on like I'm a battle scarred veteran now!)
I learned a lot from this group of friends.
(Oh, yeah. Listen to me, going on like I'm a battle scarred veteran now!)
I learned a lot from this group of friends.
believe it or not, (and I'm sure that most of you won't, but it's true!), I've had 2 male betta's in one tank before. I was a kid and had a twenty gallon tank. I had an adult male betta and bought 3 juvenile bettas. 2 of them turned out to be females, and one a male. My adult male would slow down and give the "kid" an serious stare-down, but they never fought. Just lucky I guess...
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I believe what one of the earlier posters was referring to as a mini dolphin being a fish off the coast of africe is referring to a daulphin which is actually not limited to just africa and is served up at fine sea food restaruants as Mahi Mahi. It is indeed a fish, and a lot of fun to reel in, almost as much fun as a king fish.
Btw, I learned the painful way why red snappers are called red snappers my first deep sea fishing trip when I tried to hold one like a bass. OUCHIE
I believe what one of the earlier posters was referring to as a mini dolphin being a fish off the coast of africe is referring to a daulphin which is actually not limited to just africa and is served up at fine sea food restaruants as Mahi Mahi. It is indeed a fish, and a lot of fun to reel in, almost as much fun as a king fish.
Btw, I learned the painful way why red snappers are called red snappers my first deep sea fishing trip when I tried to hold one like a bass. OUCHIE
Whales and dophins aren't fish. In fact, they were both once land creatures. Evolution caused them to move into the water.
Yeah I thought life started as microscopic organisms in the water (since water is the basis of life and single celled organisms wouldn't really be able to travel miles over land to get to water), evolved into fish and stuff, which evolved into reptiles, which evolved into mammals.... or something along those lines.
unless you dont believe in evolution because its just a theory that hasn't actually been proven. even Einstine said that the more he learned about the universe, the more he realized that it could not have been an accident, there there had to have been a designer, a creator.
If it was only that simple. Anyway, this gives a very brief overview regarding cetacean origins:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20010922/fob1.asp
However, let's try to get this derailed train-wreck of a topic back on track regarding the posters original question. There is a tropical aquarium fish (freshwater) with the petstore name of "baby whale". Pet-trade names of fish are completely baseless, and one species may have many many such names. One in particular that irks me with regularity is the 'dinosaur eel' moniker of the Polypterus senegalus. It's not an eel; it's not a dinosaur. Anyway, my point is that there very well may be some fish that Walmart or any other store may be calling a 'dolphin fish'. This method of pulling a name out of a hat plagues many an aquarist when they long to find out more information concerning fishes that they may have seen in a store of even bought.
PS - and I see that I'm too late. We're back to the crossroads between the layman's understanding of what the term theory means and how it is used within the scientific community. A crossroad so far proved unpassable on this forum, and the cause of many problems already. Please, take it to GCC.
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