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Published: 2018-05-26 17:17:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 2333; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 0
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Playing around with manipulating a dolphin body and finally managed to settle on some designs that don't look like garbage!Sonar, Defense and Diving.
I think these will be fun bases to play around with
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Thank you!
Yes Air one has problems. Namu below explained my mistake well XD
The Defense one I don't see as much of a problem. Horns and spurs are extended bones with a protein or keratin cover to strengthen and protect the bone from damage. Dinosaurs were my main inspiration for the extended spinal bones such as dimetrodon and spinosaurus. The spine in this design is still protected under a large layer of muscle and blubber to protect the spine around the spinal cord, though I would imagine that a serious injury could have some devastating effects like you mentioned. Just like if a goat broke it's horn, it would be extremely painful and could potentially even crack the skull. The tail spikes were influenced by Stegosaurus species but upon further studies I did come to realize their spikes were not actually part of the spine bones, but separate. Maybe this design can work like that too : P
I appreciate your thoughtful comment! Thanks!
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This is some interesting stuff, I'm digging the defence version too! There's some real animals who use their bones like that too. I'm not sure if the logic for the air one really adds up though, since cetacean lungs collapse on deep dives. Some may even exhale before diving to decrease buoyancy. Real O2 storage happens in the muscles. So deep-diving specialists would have more myoglobin in there, making their muscles darker. Perhaps more muscle too, just to provide more storage space? Or did you imagine the large lungs to aid in faster recovery times at the surface? Cause that could work I think
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Thanks Namu! I love your input!
Honestly the Air one is from my own lack of research. I did not know that whales store 02 in their blood/muscles! Crazy! Thank you for your wisdom I guess that is why the Sperm whale has a large mass of muscle in it's head?
If I continue to develop these further, I will definitely take your insights into consideration!
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You're more than welcome! Any chance to whale-nerd is taken haha. Yeah the muscle O2 storage is pretty crazy, but useful and logical when you think about it. The large spermaceti organ in the sperm whale's head is for sound production only 
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These are all very interesting mutations.
I think my personal favorite has got to be the Defense mutation with all those spikes and stuff.
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dem tail spikes definitely would be lethal, considering how strong a dolphin's tail swing is.
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