Posts Tagged ‘dolphins’
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The end of the Baiji river dolphins
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
A little over a year ago I blogged this angry post about the then “almost extinct” Baiji dolphins of the Yangtze river in China.
Today, I read this article on BBC News, which announced the results of a six-week survey by researchers who failed to find any remaining dolphins. They are now extinct. Aren’t we doing [...] -
The 17 Yangtze river dolphins
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Yes, there’s only 17 surviving members of the Yangtze river dolphin family that we know of. So, it had to come to that for zoologists to finally come to their senses and think “wow, there’s only 17 left? perhaps we should do something to save them”. How many years of college does it take to [...]
