The first known wholphin was born in a Tokyo SeaWorld park in 1981, but it died after just 200 days.
Another female hybrid was born at another park in 1985, and that too died after 100 days.
A wholphin is a hybrid born as a result of an unlikely canoodling between different species of cetaceans, most often a bottlenose dolphin and a false killer whale.
Although it is not technically a dolphin-whale hybrid, scientists consider it to be a true hybrid.
Numerous examples have been recorded over the past few decades.
The size difference between the two parent species is especially surprising, given the difference in their sizes.
While a male falsekiller whale can be over 5 meters (16.4 feet) long, a bottlose dolphin typically only has a 2-meter (6.5 feet) length body, while a male bottleose dolphin can reach over 5 masts.
Despite the size difference, however,
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