Wholphin?
Tigons and Ligers, and wholphins, oh my!
Deb: What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
Deb: What's a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite: It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
Who knows why they breed wholphins? Poor marine park supervision, I imagine.
Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin
HONOLULU — The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park.
Killer whales and false killer whales are both in the dolphin family, so maybe not so much a story?
Posted by: Rob G | April 15, 2005 at 10:34 AM
I will admit to never having heard of a "false killer" whale. Is this like Henry Lee Lucas or something?
Posted by: norbizness | April 15, 2005 at 10:47 AM
so does this thing have magical powers or what?
the government probably keeps it a secret so that the communists wont get their hands on it in time for the great magical wars of 2007.
oops, i seem to have said too much, too early
Posted by: a lonely time traveler | April 15, 2005 at 11:22 AM
Last summer me and a friend spent an entire week discussing the commercial for a Discovery Channel special on Oliver, a chimpanzee who was suspected of being a missing link or a human/chimp hybrid. (And just so you know, DNA testing verified that Oliver was just a normal chimp.)
This led to us discussing a variety of questions, not the least of which is what do you call a half man/half chimp.
We came up with:
Chumanzees
Humanzees
Chumans
Chumps
Posted by: Scarm the Great | April 15, 2005 at 12:49 PM
Santoodle
Posted by: Njorl | April 15, 2005 at 02:17 PM
... after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin.
Quite a surprise.
Posted by: peBird | April 15, 2005 at 03:32 PM
Video here.
Posted by: Linkmeister | April 15, 2005 at 04:58 PM
Which was the guy and which was the girl? The link is to "Jackson Accuser's Mother Cross-Examined" - although that is probably also a tale of a dolphin and a whale,,, it probably is a mistake.
Posted by: Steve Talbert | April 15, 2005 at 05:31 PM
This led to us discussing a variety of questions, not the least of which is what do you call a half man/half chimp.....
Chumanzees? Seriously?
Why not just stick with calling them Republicans?
Posted by: Dr Pretorius | April 15, 2005 at 09:00 PM
Scientifically speaking, the grandparents must have been pretty closely related, species-wise. Usually the products of interspecies mating (like ligers and mules) are sterile.
Posted by: Mnemosyne | April 15, 2005 at 09:09 PM
The word "porpoise" originally meant "pig fish" ("pork fish").
Posted by: Mike Sylwester | April 15, 2005 at 11:52 PM
"Chumanzees? Seriously? Why not just stick with calling them Republicans?"
Why insult chimpanzees?
Posted by: mijnheer | April 16, 2005 at 12:21 AM
"Meet the Killers" starring Ben Stiller as Flipper
Posted by: David | April 16, 2005 at 09:10 AM
Cute story. Wonder how long it will take before the aerial hunters get a thurst for Wholphin blood. The more endangered or rare the species, the greater the lust for kill.
Posted by: Gretchen Ross | April 16, 2005 at 10:57 PM
Once you go humpback you never go back.
Posted by: Njorl | April 19, 2005 at 09:38 AM
Wholphins r very cute!
Posted by: Jasmyn | January 25, 2008 at 04:06 PM
Wholphins r very cute!
Posted by: Jasmyn | January 25, 2008 at 04:13 PM