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The strangest things can happen in Hawaii. Especially when you involve the good people at the Sea Life Park. No, I don't know them personally, but how can you beat this ingenuity: mating a whale (an orca no less) and a dolphin. But the greatest part about this is not that they mated a whale and a dolphin. It's that they call it a "wholphin". Seriously.

If you're wondering what to do with the next five minutes of your life, check out this amazing breeding feat: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/15/wholphin.birth.ap/index.html

Poor Adam. He didn't get the chance to name strange half-breeds like this. If he had, I wonder what he would have called it. I don't doubt his creativity, but I can't imagine a word as fun as "wholphin" existing in Hebrew (or whatever language they spoke at the beginning).

posted by Courtney @ 8:59 PM