To be fair, there *is* a species of fish called a “dolphin:” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphinfish. However, it’s probably not what this person was thinking of.
Technically the term fish is just a convention rather than a scientifically recognized category so you could say that they’re fish and mammals. About the only thing I’m sure of at this point is that a koala is not a bear after all they spent decades trying to convince us that the giant panda was a raccoon.
WWWOOOWWW, How did you survive five years with this person? I would have been driven to insanity by then.
Who says I wasn’t?
Wait – which one are you? The smart one or the shallow one?
I voluntarily cohabited with someone who thought dolphins were fish. So, to answer your question, I dunno.
To be fair, there *is* a species of fish called a “dolphin:” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphinfish. However, it’s probably not what this person was thinking of.
But that fish isn’t called “dolphin”; it’s called “dolphinfish”. Big difference.
Technically the term fish is just a convention rather than a scientifically recognized category so you could say that they’re fish and mammals. About the only thing I’m sure of at this point is that a koala is not a bear after all they spent decades trying to convince us that the giant panda was a raccoon.
I dunno; I know scientific classifications have changed since I was a kid (I’ll claim planethood for Pluto with my last dying breath), but fish still seems to pretty specifically refer to gill-bearing creatures, which wouldn’t include dolphins.