I cried when I read this. I remember reading about this animal in National Geographic when I was a kid. I thought it was a beautiful, magical animal. Of course, all dolphins seem magical.
And now it is gone. The first of many mammals we are soon bound to lose, I think.
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They've given up, then? I saw a story about how badly the search was going a few weeks ago, and almost posted it.
It's really sad. They'd planned out a way to try to save them, set up an oxbow lake cut off from the main river as a reserve, but when they came to look for dolphins to populate it they just couldn't find any... there are none left.
No, none in zoos, Doug. They're actually gone.
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Oh, how terrible. Something like this makes me both sad and angry.
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Horse Chestnut, I remember reading about them as a kid too and I remember thinking how cool it was that dolphins could live in a river (as opposed to an ocean).
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;_; That's really sad. I read about the baiji in Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams. He talked about all these plans the Chinese government had to try to save them; of course the book was written a couple decades ago, so I guess it shouldn't really surprise me.
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