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keto
13 Jan 2004, 7:57am
OOOOps I thought the term 'wetsuit' referred to the outside of the suit, but not after this encounter.....
Kwitko
13 Jan 2004, 2:26pm
It's a dolphin.
citrixmeta
13 Jan 2004, 2:32pm
omg not again,

anybody from the old icrontic remember this pic? :)
the thread reached like 10 pages...

dolphin
no shark
dolphin
shark

It's a dolphin.
mmonnin
13 Jan 2004, 2:33pm
Yep its a classic.
Kwitko
13 Jan 2004, 2:43pm
omg not again,

anybody from the old icrontic remember this pic? :)
the thread reached like 10 pages...

dolphin
no shark
dolphin
shark

You know, since S-M opened, I haven't had to play my Snopes card in a long time. Well, here we go (http://www.snopes.com/photos/surfer.asp). If you go to the photographer's website, you'll see that it is indeed a dolphin, as evidenced by the opening shot on his site.
keto
13 Jan 2004, 3:03pm
LOL I hadn't seen it before. Wife doesn't believe me it's a dolphin. ;)
Kwitko
13 Jan 2004, 3:16pm
Because it's a shark. :p
Geeky1
13 Jan 2004, 4:15pm
It is not. You can clearly see in the picture that rear edge of the animal's dorsal fin is concave, and it's caudal fin is perpendicular to the body (it's oriented horizontally when the animal is right-side up)

Compare that to a great white shark (pic attached) which is one of a very small number of species that's likely to get big enough to be mistaken for a dolphin.

The shark has a clearly straight-edged dorsal fin, and a vertical caudal fin. There are no fish with horizontal caudal fins. So, the animal in the picture has to be a cetacean of some sort. Judging by it's size and appearance, I'd have to say it's a member of the family Delphinidae, the genus Tursiops, and the species truncatus.

It's a bottlenose dolphin, people. :rolleyes:


:p :D
shwaip
13 Jan 2004, 4:37pm
It's an orca.
Camman
13 Jan 2004, 5:14pm
It's an orca.

clearly shwaip and I are the only ones around here who know whats REALLY going on.... :bigggrin: :bigggrin:
Gobbles
13 Jan 2004, 5:35pm
I agree... Its an orca, a baby one at that... its to big to be a dolphin. The length from the leading edge of the dorsal fin to the snout is waaay to long to be a dolphin...

Killer pic however....

Gobbles
shwaip
13 Jan 2004, 5:59pm
I agree... Its an orca, a baby one at that... its to big to be a dolphin. The length from the leading edge of the dorsal fin to the snout is waaay to long to be a dolphin...

Killer pic however....

Gobbles


mfft. ;D
Geeky1
13 Jan 2004, 9:01pm
I'll have to look when I get a chance (I'm on my lunch break now... I have to go back to school in 5 minutes) but I don't think it's wide enough to be an Orca.
TheBaron
13 Jan 2004, 9:20pm
maybe its just a long dolphin shaped orca. new species you know
madmat
13 Jan 2004, 9:22pm
Aside from the width you can pretty much discern the narrowing of the nose. Dolphin.
Gobbles
13 Jan 2004, 10:31pm
It is a dolphin ill admit im wrong...

Gobbles
Clutch
14 Jan 2004, 1:20am
Here we go again....it's a shark....no its a dolphin....no its a lion....no its a....oh f*ck it.
Geeky1
14 Jan 2004, 1:36am
It isn't a lion. Lions are yellow/beige/gold/brown/whateverthehellyouwanttocallit. :crazy:
Clutch
15 Jan 2004, 12:23am
It's a lion shark, haha
MrBill
15 Jan 2004, 12:44am
omg not again,

anybody from the old icrontic remember this pic? :)
the thread reached like 10 pages...

dolphin
no shark
dolphin
sharkI don't remember the picture at the start of this thread.


The one I do remember was a debate whether the "subject" was a shark or a whale. To be more specific, I think the argument was between a Great White Shark and a Killer Whale.

I had that picture somewhere. When I get home, I'll look for it.
Kwitko
15 Jan 2004, 1:11am
It's a bottlenose dolphin, people. :rolleyes:

:p :D

Ummm... No. It's a squid.