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Originally Posted by D
Mahi Mahi is commonly, but perhaps incorrectly called a "Dolphin" because of it's appearance. It has a blunt forehead, similar in shape to that of actual "Dolphins"
But it is a fish. A gill-using, non-milk producing, simple nerve system, no hair having, egg-laying fish.
A Dolphin is a mammal. It gives birth to live young, produced milk to feed its young, has lungs, breaths air, has a brain roughly the size of a human.... and even has hair as a youth.
Flipper's genetically more closely related to humans than he is to Mahi Mahi - by a long shot.
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It's not a dolphin to you because you accept a western definition of what a dolphin is and the rest of the world must be wrong because they don't agree with you.
Yes, the kind of dolphin that westerners are so thrilled with are mammals.
Nobody looked at a Mahi-Mahi and thought it was a "Flipper" and thus incorrectly called it a dolphin. It look nothing at all like Flipper!
It was called dolphin because of it's behavior paterns in the sea.