Post #318751
2025-09-16 21:53 UTC
Something I learned about over the weekend, a wonderful pun on Wikipedia is at risk of extinction. If it happens though it'll be for the right reasons at least.
On the "List of Cetaceans" page they have what you'd expect, against each whale in the list is a picture or drawing. Where they have neither they have "[cetacean needed]" which is a glorious pun!
They're down to one remaining, if someone is able to document Deraniyagala's beaked whale in the wild it'd be great news for conservation, but a sad day for puns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans
Replies (6)
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@nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk 2025-09-16 22:45
@neaveeng@hachyderm.io Sounds like someone could be having a whale of a time.
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@anandphilipc@sigmoid.social 2025-09-17 07:07
@neaveeng@hachyderm.io No Such Thing!
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@pharsicle@aus.social 2025-09-17 22:38
@neaveeng@hachyderm.io Are you sure it’s not just a fluke?
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@aburka@hachyderm.io 2025-09-18 02:11
@neaveeng@hachyderm.io The obvious solution is that we need to add more cetaceans
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@jessamyn@glammr.us 2025-09-18 20:28
@neaveeng@hachyderm.io Someone may have been listening to the same podcast as I was. I just learned that this week also!
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@victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-09-19 07:06
@neaveeng@hachyderm.io This toot made me look up how 'cetacean' is pronounced, and it was nothing like I expected (SEH-tah-SEE-an) and far more like, well, 'citation'! 😄