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Yes it is normal in fact for whales. English speakers use calf for the young, cow for female, and bull for males. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal
by spicymaki 8y ago
Yes it is normal in fact for whales. English speakers use calf for the young, cow for female, and bull for males. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names
English speakers do the same for other sea mammals such as dolphins and walruses.
- jazoom 8y agoI could be wrong but I think you read the comment backwards.
- rypskar 8y agoYou are right, for me calf is the natural word to use for a young whale. So using the word baby seems to be to trigger an emotion in readers to set a state for the rest of the text. Indicating that it is more wrong to kill a whale than to kill a cow
- jazoom 8y agoI think that's exactly why they called it a "baby".
- spicymaki 8y agoYou are right! Misread the comment.