From China.org: A finless porpoise was found dead last Sunday morning in Huangshi City Park in Hubei Province, the Changjiang Times reported. “Such an enormous finless porpoise is rarely seen,” said Dr. Hao Yujiang with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, brimming over with grief. The preliminary examination revealed that the marine creature was an adult […]
Sherif Soliman, a Current Correspondent, says in the video that “Rapid development in China lead to the extinction of the Yangtze fresh water dolphin a.k.a the Baiji. There remains another mammal, the porpoise, in the Yangtze River in the same position where the dolphin was.” An expert interviewed by Soliman says that if the porpoise […]
From Chinadialogue: …It now seems possible that the finless porpoise, known in Chinese as the “river pig”, may go the same way as the baiji (the Yangtze River dolphin). In December 2006, a survey of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River found no trace of the baiji, and the number of finless […]
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