Ivan Seeking
Aug7-07, 09:23 PM
... The researchers failed to spot any Yangtze river dolphins, also known as baijis, during an extensive six-week survey of the mammals' habitat.
The team, writing in the Royal Society Biology Letters journals, blamed unregulated fishing as the main reason behind the dolphins' demise.
It would be the first extinction of a large vertebrate for over 50 years. [continued]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6935343.stm
The team, writing in the Royal Society Biology Letters journals, blamed unregulated fishing as the main reason behind the dolphins' demise.
It would be the first extinction of a large vertebrate for over 50 years. [continued]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6935343.stm