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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

That was my first thought but can dolphins breathe out of their mouths?

*Searching say no. Can I say duckduckgoing? Ducking? Ducking says no. Separate breathing and feeding tubes. We should do that.

**More ducking says "Until recently it was thought that dolphins could not breathe through their mouths in the same way as people can, only through their blowholes. However, in 2016 scientists discovered a New Zealand dolphin with a damaged blowhole who had learnt to breathe through his or her mouth."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’d just like to add that the colloquial interpretation of “mouth-breathing dolphin” is kinda funny. Like Kevin the Dolphin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you for this, great stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Huh, interesting. This article has a scratch of the cross section of a dolphins head: https://hakaimagazine.com/news/scientists-discover-mouth-breathing-dolphin/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

*What do you reckon the past participle would be? Google/Googled is easy. Duckduckgoed sounds wrong. Duckduckwent is probably correct. Ducked might be easily misinterpreted/misunderstood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

DDGed gets my vote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Computer says no.

AHEM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I just say Google hoping that the trademark will eventually become generalized like escalator