Talk:Risso's dolphin

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Vandalism

This page has been vandalized, but I do not know how to fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.105.233.104 (talk) 18:11, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Where is the vandalism? The changes in the last few months all look reasonable at first glance. If you can describe the problem perhaps someone can help? Thanks! ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 18:23, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Etymology of Grampus

I have a reasonable, almost self-evident, explanation for the name Grampus, but I do not have a secondary reference that makes this connection explicitly. To me, the name Grampus sure sounds similar to the wild horned creature of alpine mythology, Krampus. Furthermore, the cetacean is also a rather aggressive animal with prominent tusks, metaphorically, horns. To add to this idea, Grampus is listed by various Internet sources (even here on Wikipedia!) as an alternate spelling of Krampus. (That is the self-evident part of the etymology--the words are the same.) The one last connection, I feel, is that the author of Grampus is Georges Cuvier, and he was from Montbéliard, a town right on the Swiss border, which only became part of France after his birth. Perhaps Cuvier was familiar with the mythological Krampus/Grampus from his alpine birthplace. The etymologies one reads, as from The American Heritage Dictionary and the Online Etymology Dictionary seem downright implausible, deriving it from something like French graundepose. But how to indicate this in the article without it being "original research"? The thing that surprises me, too, is that nobody seems to have made this connection previously. But maybe the idea is wrong. It is not clear to me if Grampus was a French word Cuvier adopted, or his own coinage, for instance. If the latter, my theory makes sense, if the former, not as much. Some serious research in Cuvier's writings might help. Any comments? Cotinis (talk) 03:13, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Tone of section 6

Though the last section of the article doesn't directly pass judgement on Japanese dolphin hunting, it uses language that implies a strong negative opinion. In addition, there aren't any citations.

Relevant text:

To this day, Japan continues to hunt them using the practice of slaughtering entire pods. In fact, the fishermen of Taiji, Japan captured a pod of 9 Risso's on February 4, 2014 and slaughtered all of them. One or two may have been taken into captivity the same day from the pod of 9, as skiffs were seen preparing slings to take some into captivity while the other pod members were killed in the shallows of the infamous 'Cove.' This is documented on the Sea Shepherd website.

Jippijip (talk) 22:59, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Clarify "predation"

"They feed almost exclusively on neritic and oceanic squid, mostly nocturnally. Predation does not appear significant."

Does eating squid not count as predation? Chriswaterguy talk 20:41, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

common name

I cannot find a source that supports "It is commonly known as the Monk dolphin among Taiwanese fishermen. ", the last part seems unlikely. ~ cygnis insignis 18:43, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Largest dolphin

Contrary to what this article implies, Risso's dolphin is not the largest species of dolphin. For example, orcas and short-finned pilot whales are both in the dolphin family, and are significantly larger than Risso's dolphin. Risso's dolphins are described in the article as 'the largest species called "dolphin" ', which might be an attempt to exclude things like orcas because people generally call them killer whales, but I think this should be stated more clearly to avoid implying Risso's is the largest dolphin when it is not.