Topic: Tag Implication: boto -> dolphin

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

Boto look exactly the same as other dolphins. I'd say alias instead.

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Furrin_Gok said:
Okay, then the one image under the boto tag is not a boto, but a regular dolphin.

it looks like a hybrid between bottlenose and boto. bottlenose because the snout and boto because botos are often ridicuously pink

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Mutisija said:
it looks like a hybrid between bottlenose and boto. bottlenose because the snout and boto because botos are often ridicuously pink

Isn't color ignores when determining species?

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Furrin_Gok said:
Isn't color ignores when determining species?

no? for example the decision if a thing should be tagged as polar bear, panda or any other bear species is made purely based on the coloration

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Furrin_Gok said:
Isn't color ignores when determining species?

Boto most commonly means a specific type of RIVER dolphin... it's an informal group of dolphins... not all of them are pink, check out river dolphin on the wikipedia and you'll see there's a series of morphological adaptations specific to this group
Also sometimes my fursona (who is a boto) appears more like a common dolphin but that's entirely depending on the artist's style when drawing her snout/beak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_river_dolphin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin

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Also, we should think about the animal itself and not myself just because I'm the only boto tagged. For example a lot of wolves here are fucking green but wolves normally aren't green...

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