Technically, it's a Moore.
Ping!
Please, no more Meghan McCain threads.
It’s my contention that a hippo is a hippo, a whale is a whale and a pig is Barney Frank.
I bet they end up spending hundreds of thousands in federal money to find out that it is a Hippo.
I thought hippos were related to the horse or Meagan McCain.
Wow - scientists working for a living. Did you read the article or did you just like its snappy title?
Do they BBQ well? If so, I vote pig.
From a purely Biblical perspective, aren't these referred to specifically, and described rather heroically as one of the more powerful and amazing creatures in God's Creation?
It’s a Super Hawg. Just ask Granny.
Technically, it's a Moore.
Neither! Its just big boned!
Comment from http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7236/full/nature07776.html by Giesler and Theodor:
“Thewissen et al. describe new fossils from India that apparently support a phylogeny that places Cetacea (that is, whales, dolphins, porpoises) as the sister group to the extinct family Raoellidae, and Hippopotamidae as more closely related to pigs and peccaries (that is, Suina) than to cetaceans. However, our reanalysis of a modified version of the data set they used differs in retaining molecular characters and demonstrates that Hippopotamidae is the closest extant family to Cetacea and that raoellids are the closest extinct group, consistent with previous phylogenetic studies. This topology supports the view that the aquatic adaptations in hippopotamids and cetaceans are inherited from their common ancestor.’
And the shocking (to the knuckleheads at creation safaris) reply from Thewissen et al at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7236/full/nature07775.html:
“The analysis of Geisler and Theodor confirms our main phylogenetic result, that raoellids are, or include, the sister group to cetaceans. Their study expands on our findings by inferring that hippopotamids are the sister group to the combined raoellid–cetacean clade, whereas our paper had explicitly stated that our data could not address the position of the extant artiodactyl families.”
Does it really matter? Global warming is going to make them go bye-bye anyway!
Remind me never to send an evolutionist out to buy bacon.
Why was my first thought that the hippo is actually related to the horse?
Any persons studing zoology out there? I can hear Jack Hanna in my ear saying this.
i thought a hippo was a horse...
A hippo is closer to a horse than a pig or a whale. I learned that in grade 10 biology.
Evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible.
Perhaps it’s a pale whig? ;-P
By gene sequencing hippos are also related to cows, sheep, giraffes, pigs, camels, and whales according to Japanese researchers of a few years ago. (www.asa3.org/archive/evolution/199908/0289.)
By those measures how could anyone be wrong about what the hippo is related to?
And more of our money is wasted. Evolution is hurting science by wasting the time of scientists.
“I accept that you may be descended from a ape; I can even accept that I may be descended from a ape; but I defy the man to state that General Robert E. Lee is descended from a ape.”
What if a hippo is a . . . hippo, and pig is a . . . pig, and a whale is a . . . whale, and if one was never another?
What if God created three different animals with a few similar characteristics that cause a stumbling block for evolutionists?
By the way, I never did notice if anyone gave the correct answer to this question -- is the hippo a pig or whale?
A hippo is neither a pig nor a whale, it's a hippo. Fossil analyses say hippos seem distantly related to both pigs and whales. But according to newer DNA analysis, they are closer to whales than pigs.
Of course, you've probably seen, whenever people ask the hippos which relative they feel closer to, their only response is a big big yawn. I guess, by now hippos are bored with the subject... ;-)
Why does this thread keep showing up every day or so. Enough is enough. I frankly don’t care what it is. God created it and Adam named it, suits me fine, and since I don’t plan on eating a HIPPO call it what you want. It’s still a hippo.
Is a Hippo a Pig or a Whale?
I don't know but you haven't lived until you have seen a hippo fling poo with it's tail.
It could be a whig or a pale, too!
Nope, sounds more like my ex sister in law. heh!
