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Orcas (so called “killer whales”) aren’t whales at all, they’re actually dolphins.

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Cetaceans technically, dolphins being the most well-known cetacean. I was hasty, they are actually in the dolphin family, Delphinidae. Neat.

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Depends on how your language classifies their names I guess.

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Cladistically dolphins are a type of toothed whale. They’re more closely related to species like sperm whales than toothed whales and baleen whales are to each other.

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