Zybch says:

Amazing stuff. Sure beats the hell out of those dumb chimps who spend their entire day with bits of grass ‘hunting’ termites.

bobbo, words have a context says:

#3–hopper==are you THAT rigid and inflexible?

There are “dolphins” in the fish family and there are dolphins in the whale family.

Silly to so grossly confuse taxonomy as you do==especially on reflection?

“Words” gain most of their power by their ability to make DISTINCTIONS. Lazy and ignorant to champion obscuring real distinctions. Like “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” When you see dissimilar things being lumped together, you know evil is afoot.

Christian says:

Why do documentaries have to have such dramatic music? Good grief, they’re eating fish, not saving drowning babies.

Mike says:

Dolphins and porpoises are two completely different animals. Like alligators and crocodiles. The image that hhopper posted is of a “dolphin-fish.” Specifically, you have to say dolphin-fish when referring to a mahi-mahi.

Dolphins are mammals that breathe air and would suffocate if they didn’t surface for a fresh breath. A dolphin-fish is a fish, meaning it stays underwater and if it were brought to the surface, would suffocate in the air.

That was long-winded, but I hope I cleard things up.

Skeptic says:

I’m going to try that next time I’m hungry at the beach.

bobbo, words have a context says:

I love words and the “thinking” that is inextricably entwined. We think with words, words are our mental life. Words make us human, albeit to various degrees.

I love having an “objective resource” to help me understand words/thinking/life that helps out in so many situations. Mostly unimportant as the issue here, but sometimes very important if you think in terms of words/ideas instead of staying in the rut of unexamined emotions.

http://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolphin+

Etymology: Middle English delphyn, dolphyn, from Anglo-French delphin, alteration of Old French dalfin, from Medieval Latin dalfinus, alteration of Latin delphinus, from Greek delphin-, delphis; akin to Greek delphys womb, Sanskrit garbha
Date: 14th century

1 a (1) : any of various small marine toothed whales (family Delphinidae) with the snout more or less elongated into a beak and the neck vertebrae partially fused (2) : any of several related chiefly freshwater toothed whales (as of the family Platanistidae) b : porpoise 1
2 : dolphinfish
3 capitalized : delphinus
4 : a spar or buoy for mooring boats; also : a cluster of closely driven piles used as a fender for a dock or as a mooring or guide for boats

It appears the picture at Post #3 is NOT A DOLPHIN, but rather is a Dolphinfish. Such as easy error to make, and such an easy one to correct and learn from. Dolphins are not porpoises, and porpoises are not dolphins. To make this error would be like calling chimps gorillas. You just have to pay more attention to the differences and less attention to the similarities.

Words. You gotta love how you think.

N74JW says:

Ready? Hike!!!

Dan says:

Those poor fish! Murdered by dolphins! Where’s PETA to protect them?!?!?