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Would anyone like to talk? I would like to make a few friends. I have a very small circle and I would like to expand it.
Thanks if anyone would like to talk.

OK. Start off with your special interests.

You're not new here, that's for sure (# posts).

Love the whale on your avatar. What species is that?

villete: Thank you for the response.
Yeah sure my special interests are mainly music - guitar and such. I also like ufo's, underwater sea life, football (soccer) and subjects related to Autism.

AspieForty: Thank you for the response.
lol I've been on this site for a while for sure.
That's a Beluga whale, which is related to dolphins rather than whales for some reason.

What interests and hobbies do you have villete?
Do you like whales/dolphins AspieForty?

I wondered if there were related species. I guess not. Some creatures can appear the same, yet are divided into separate species.

I looked it up and Wiki says, "The beluga or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic species of cetacean."

I suppose, there's only one.

I love whales and dolphins...

I saw beluga whales when I was in Vancouver. Two of them had very young babies and it was amazing seeing them interacting together. There was 4 females, all related, three generations. I wish I could go back there to see how they have grown, and the males would probably be back now too. I love dolphins and whales, they are so beautiful.

They're awesome. BTW, is that your cat in the avatar, and does it have two different eye colors? (Brown and Blue?) When a cat is solid white, they many times have two different colored eyes. I found a stray kitty along the road and took it home. It's grown to a huge cat, its terribly spoiled and has two different eye colors (Heterochromia iridium).

AspieForty: I heard anyway, so I'm not really sure why they are called whales lol.
Dolphins are brilliant creatures - adept and intelligent, but I'm not an expert.
I find the subject interesting but I wouldn't claim to have expertise, but are there any other types of sea creature you have an interest toward?

SamewiseGamgee: Thank you for the response.
That sounds like a very interesting site to behold. That's fascinating behavior from the Beluga whales.
How about you SamewiseGamgee? Do you have an interest toward other types of sea creature too?

Any of them. It's interesting that you mention it though, because the "Killer Whale" is a dolphin.

Killer whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The killer whale (Orcinus orca), commonly referred to as the orca – and, less commonly, blackfish – is the largest species of the oceanic dolphin family. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whale

Yep, that's my cat Samwise. He's got a blue and a green eye. Supposedly when a white cat has one or two blue eyes there is a greater chance that they're deaf in the ear on the same side, but it doesn't seem to be the case with him.


I like quite a few sea creatures, actually. I have the show Blue Planet on dvd and I love it. I think especially the deep sea creatures are very interesting. The only thing I don't like about most fish is their eyes. Terrible experience fishing once and the hook went through the fish's eye and popped it out. Disturbing and distressing to a young animal lover. I think they're interesting eyes but I have a hard time looking at them without the image of that terribly mutilated fish coming back to mind. I think the fish was probably fine though, I once had a one-eyed goldfish that lived for 3+ years, though I don't know if it was born that way or lost it somehow.

I'm fascinated by the sea in general, it's just so vast and there's so much we don't know about what goes on down there.

Would you believe that at the center of a fish's eyes, there is a beautiful marble-shaped, clear crystal ball? Not joking. I did a dissection of a fish once for college. Its not horrifying...

We have koi fish, relatives of the goldfish. That means "affection" in Japanese.
Koi have been documented to live up to 200+ years.


Koi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Koi can live for centuries. One famous scarlet koi, named "Hanako" (c. 1751 – July 7, 1977) was owned by several individuals, the last of whom was Dr. Komei ...
- en wikipedia org/wiki/Koi

Hanako, the fish who lived to 226
"There did not exist in this world any such country as the United States of America yet at the time when this carp was born. It was 25 years later that America made public the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It is very interesting to think that during the long years that this carp has continued to live, a country by the name of the United States of America came into existence and has built up her present culture of high standard. To speak in Japanese fashion, it was born in the 1st year of Horeki, that is, in the middle of the Tokugawa Era. Please consider how long her life is, surviving the shogunate and later the national advancement of Meiji and Taisho, and still continuing to live to this day of Showa."
- boingboing net/2008/08/20/hanako-the-fished-wh.html

That's cool. Yeah I think their eyes are certainly interesting, I just can't get past the image of the eye dangling off that fish by a tiny string of matter. I was like 7, and it haunts me. It also creeps me out when they die, dead things are more unnerving when their eyes are open.

AspieForty: Ah that's strange. I remember also there's a member of the dolphin family called the false killer whale as well. So it seems there's the Orca, Beluga, and False killer whale all dolphins and none are whales.
I don't know much apart from a few facts about them. I'm afraid I know less about whales, but they are interesting too. The tale of the Goldfish sounds fascinating. I had no idea a fish, and certainly one of that size, could live that long.

Samwisegamgee: Blue Planet is a very nice documentary. There are still possibly a lot of other sea creatures waiting to be explored, which would be cool if they found more.

The experience you describe sounds quite horrible to have witnessed.

I have a cat too named Rosie. That sounds interesting what you say about Samwise.

I'm new here & also have a very small circle of friends. One of the rezones I joined is because I'm looking for friends & possible relationship. Feel Free to message me or check my pro for more info if you guys want

nick007: Hello and welcome to wrongplanet.
If you would like to talk then you are very welcome to. You can talk here if you like or I could send you a pm or you could send me one if you like.

They're relatives of Goldfish, and the ones at our college grew up to around 12 inches or so, in length. Very large fish if allowed space to roam and swim. They're good in cleaning ponds the instructor told me.

Here's the most interesting video I ever saw of these fish though. A duckling is feeding the Koi (Japanese for affection/love) If you're familiar with Koi, in the aquarium... we have two of them in our home. They can really make you feel guilty for not feeding them when they come up to you... maybe they had the same effect on the duckling.

baby duck feed the carp (Nishiki-Goi, Koi)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPxDw7ajfGE[/youtube]