Pollution and shipping were thought to have caused China’s native white dolphin to go extinct, but researchers might have found one surviving dolphin.
From the News Tribune:
A white dolphin native to China’s Yangtze River that scientists declared extinct last year has possibly been spotted swimming in the wild, offering a small shred of hope for its revival, a researcher said Wednesday.Wang Ding, a researcher with the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said a man saw and shot a video of what appears to be a baiji or white flag dolphin in central China’s Anhui province on Aug. 19.[Full Text]
[Image: A Chinese white dolphin jumps out of the water off of Hong Kong, in this September 15, 2000, file photo. Vincent Yu, AP.]
