(August 7, 2019 at 6:36 am)Grandizer Wrote:(August 7, 2019 at 12:37 am)Shell B Wrote: Stop splitting hairs for the sake of it. I mean, I wouldn't get mad on Twitter about it, but dolphins ain't fish, yo.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/dolphin.html
Find me a biologist who will waffle like the posts in these threads about whether dolphins are fish. None of them actual think you mean Mahi when you say dolphin.
They be mammals, brah. It's such a pointless semantics waste of time to debate it.
That's fair, though when biologists are doing their research, they are expected to use the scientific names for these organisms rather than ambiguous common names.
I don’t think they find the common name ambiguous. None of us actually do. I also don’t think they’re out to sea on research vessels speaking Latin to each other. Furthermore, the Latin name is usually included next to the common name as a parenthetical in research papers, an afterthought for clarity. It’s not like they all wander around correcting each other when everyone knows what dolphin means, even if it’s more fun to rile Brian than admit it.
