The longest river in Asia, the Yangtze is one of the only two rivers in the world with two types of dolphin. That was, until 2006 when the Baiji dolphin was declared “functionally extinct”. Its close ...
China’s Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer ... had stopped to examine some strange-looking rocky fragments on the ground, he told CNN. At the same time, study coauthor John J.
Marine mammal medics and vets helped recover the dolphin after it got trapped in a deep pool in a river bend A stranded ... to see a dolphin so far inland. He added: "We've never seen one in ...
The dolphin’s extinction is a sad story because an estimated 6,000 dolphins were living in the Yangtze River during the 1950s, which was considered a healthy population. 1. In paragraph 1 ...
Also declared extinct in 2006, the Chinese Yangtze river dolphin was a pale, putty-coloured mammal that looked rather less sleek and elegant than its sea-swimming cousins. Its plain looks hid a ...
Lenovo, in collaboration with the Shanghai Natural History Museum, launched the“Awakening Earth's Majestic Creatures with AI” digital ...
It will scale up collective efforts to safeguard the remaining river dolphin species - Amazon, Ganges, Indus, Irrawady, Tucuxi and Yangtze finless porpoise - by developing and funding measures to ...
Baiji dolphins, native to China's Yangtze River, are among the rarest aquatic mammals, with fewer than 100 individuals remaining in the wild. Captured by fishermen in 1980, Qiqi spent nearly 23 ...