CEngelbrecht
Registered Senior Member
Based on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/s...hybrid-of-two-other-dolphin-species.html?_r=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin
I was thinking about hybrids amongst dolphins. There are some 40 different species of dolphins listed, but many seem capable of mating and creating hybrid specimens, which are themselves not sterile (a sterile offspring is otherwise the definition of two distinct species, e.g. horses and donkeys creating sterile mules). So is it worth considering at least some of the multitude of dolphin species, while different in physiology, not as much as individual species, but more as ethnicities or sorts? (And yes, this may also say something about ourselves.)
A rare wholphin (a bottlenose and false killer whale hybrid) with calf, Sea Life Park, Hawaii
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/s...hybrid-of-two-other-dolphin-species.html?_r=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholphin
I was thinking about hybrids amongst dolphins. There are some 40 different species of dolphins listed, but many seem capable of mating and creating hybrid specimens, which are themselves not sterile (a sterile offspring is otherwise the definition of two distinct species, e.g. horses and donkeys creating sterile mules). So is it worth considering at least some of the multitude of dolphin species, while different in physiology, not as much as individual species, but more as ethnicities or sorts? (And yes, this may also say something about ourselves.)
A rare wholphin (a bottlenose and false killer whale hybrid) with calf, Sea Life Park, Hawaii