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Old 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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Old 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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I'll move it

Marks lazy :P !
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but you didn't move the actual conversation.....
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lol no, but it was in the wrong place.
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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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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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Old 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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Old 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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Next thing you'll be telling me that hyraxes are related to elephants!
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Old 22-04-2008

or elephant shrews!
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Old 22-04-2008

wait...I thought you were a sengi man!
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oops!

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