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

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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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Depends on how your language classifies their names I guess.

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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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Are you saying the Bible is a lie?

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tbf the guy famously survived

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Yes, people didn’t exist back then.

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They’re Orcas, not “Killer whales”.

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They’re Maine Coons, not ‘House Cats’

They’re just commonly understood colloquial names.

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Iirc it was a mistranslation and the actual name translated to whale killer.

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Can’t believe the woke mob is coming for Pinocchio /s

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…yet

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