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25. April 2005 @ 21:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I never thought of this,but why do they have blow holes.Since they are fish,wouldn't they have gills or something like that.I don't know kinda weird how they breathe right,and why do they put them in the fish category.




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26. April 2005 @ 00:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok, firstly, lets clear this bit up:
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and why do they put them in the fish category
lol..they never put them in the fish catagory. dolphins, whales, porpises and seals are all MAMMALS. like you or me. this means they give birth to live young and feed it with milk.

ok, all mammals have lungs and breathe air. whales and dolphins take a bigass breath before diving down and doing whatever it is they do. then they come to the surface to get another breath. the blowhole is their nostril. thats what they breathe out of. if you were to cover it, eventually the animal would suffocate.

the sperm whale can hold its breath for over 8 hrs, so that is why they stay down for such a long long time. and with whales like the humpback (ones that eat planktin or little itty bitty swimming things) the blowhole is also used to blast out all the water they swallow when they grab a huge mouthful of food.

none of them have gills at all...just really big lungs and a great capacity for holding their breath.

i hope i answered your question. :)


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26. April 2005 @ 00:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Mrs_B, I think someone was pulling your leg ;-)
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26. April 2005 @ 01:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
mrchub, you mean the original post was just a muck-around? lol...yeh, i already assumed that..but its such a funny question to me i HAD to answer it.


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26. April 2005 @ 01:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
HMMMM from dvd burning to animal planet .any chance that you are drinking tonight L-Burna, i would guess yes LOL
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26. April 2005 @ 04:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Now I'm realy LM(frigging)AO ! I cant stop!;ROFLMAOWTIME !




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26. April 2005 @ 07:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah,it was just a question of nonesense,just wanted to say blow holes.Hahahaha lol




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27. April 2005 @ 05:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LMAO!!! Sounds like an introduction to another porn thread!

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27. April 2005 @ 13:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Someone say Porn??????????



Or are we still on the blow holes..............LMAO.........

If the picture is inappropriate, then please edit it out, it was just TOO funny not to post it.....

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27. April 2005 @ 14:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
jesus man, do you wanna cause a heartatack!!!!





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27. April 2005 @ 15:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
is that what you would call an emergency power dive??!!!
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27. April 2005 @ 15:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
baabaa, where did you get my wife's holiday photos from?

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27. April 2005 @ 19:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
LMAO! i love that pic! wonder if she has lungs or gills?


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27. April 2005 @ 19:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In the words of Peter Griffin, "I'll tell you what the blow-hole's NOT for. And when I do you'll understand why we can never go back to SeaWorld."

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27. April 2005 @ 21:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good old Peter Griffin, I hope he had fun......................

I love the pic, and especially as it's got a Greenpeace logo on it, made me laugh quite a bit.

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