Cetacean needed
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From Philip Taylor:
A nice pun on Wikipedia’s ubiquitous "citation needed"
Wikipedia's list of cetaceans, which reads (in part):
| Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin | Tursiops erebennus Cope, 1865 |
NE | Unknown | [cetacean needed] |
Lovely pun indeed!
Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops erebennus) is a species of bottlenose dolphin that inhabits coastal waters in the eastern United States. This species was previously considered a nearshore variant of the common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus.
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Tamanend's bottlenose dolphin does indeed belong to the Infraorder Cetacea.
Selected readings
- "Sperm whale talk" (5/15/23)
- "Orca emits speech-like sound; reporters go insane" (1/31/18)
- "Moby Zipf" (6/1/19)
- "Alien encounters" (9/15/16)
Benjamin E. Orsatti said,
March 28, 2024 @ 6:55 am
Puns are the highest form of humor; pay no attention to the troglodytes who hold otherwise.
James Crippen said,
March 28, 2024 @ 7:13 am
If you scroll further down in the lists, that article has the same “cetacean needed” for all other entries that lack pictures.
Tom Ace said,
March 28, 2024 @ 10:57 am
The pun is too good to be a coincidence. It's there on porpoise.
Jarek Weckwerth said,
March 28, 2024 @ 11:57 am
@ Tom Ace: Of course this calls for some Norm McDonald:
https://youtu.be/n3LMSflEN54?si=0-McUPwacZyyUqdb
Roscoe said,
March 28, 2024 @ 12:03 pm
Or Peter Schickele:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2C2L7GrUqs&pp=ygUUcGRxIGJhY2gga25vY2sga25vY2s%3D
KevinM said,
March 28, 2024 @ 1:11 pm
Or the notorious "citizen birds" case. (Hint: they were parrots.) https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-byrnes-2
unekdoud said,
March 29, 2024 @ 4:11 am
xkcd's What If? had a cetacean pun on one of its [citation needed] links:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/156/
Francois Lang said,
March 29, 2024 @ 10:15 am
Clearly, a whale of a joke.