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#1
Attractive animals
18-04-2008
ben or mark, are you able move this conversation to start a "attractive animals" thread for those weirdo's who want to participate. i wanna talk more about hippo..
did you know genetics suggest a tie with cetaceans and not pigs? 
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#2
18-04-2008
That's a whale of a theory!
 Is it more or less proven, or is it just somone's new idea?
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#3
18-04-2008
I'll move it
Marks lazy :P !
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#4
18-04-2008
but you didn't move the actual conversation.....
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#5
18-04-2008
lol no, but it was in the wrong place.
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#6
18-04-2008
Yes it seems totally weird to me but whales and artiodactyls have a common ancestor and are now placed in the order Cetartiodactyla.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Whale 'missing link' discovered BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Whale and hippo 'close cousins'
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#7
18-04-2008
I think it could be that hippos evolved from pigs over a long time and became very seperate and then the whales evolved from the aquatic hippos later on and are a closer link. (But I'm no Geneologist or anything like that and i just made that up 'cos it made a bit of sense to me.)
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#8
19-04-2008
......and despite their superficial resemblance to pigs, peccaries are more closely related to dugongs!
(Well go on; prove me wrong!)
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#9
21-04-2008
a pig/hippo relationship always seemed to make sense to me. the two share a lot of similarities. just look at them and it makes a degree of sense.
but the dolphin connection has turned that idea on its head!
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#10
22-04-2008
Next thing you'll be telling me that hyraxes are related to elephants!
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#11
22-04-2008
or elephant shrews!
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#12
22-04-2008
wait...I thought you were a sengi man!
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#13
22-04-2008
 oops!totally busted chlidonias!! 
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