river dolphin

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• The greatest threats to marine mammals are being caught in fishing nets or being struck by shipping vessels, although for the Yangtze river dolphin, pollution is a major contributor.
• We propose that the ancestors of the four extant river dolphin taxa were inhabitants of Miocene epicontinental seas.
• Although not closely related to other river dolphins, the tucuxi is included here because it shares a similar habitat.
• For example, China's Yangtze river dolphin and the solenodons of Hispaniola and Cuba, are the last surviving representatives of entire families of mammals, yet are unfamiliar to both conservationists and the public, and are frequently overlooked by current conservation initiatives.
• The Indus River dolphin, the Baluchistan bear, the Suleiman markhor, Hotson's long-tailed hamster, and the Central Asian cobra are classified as endangered. Baluchistan xeric woodlands
• The problem of this hypothesis is that it requires the river dolphins of the Amazon, Ganges, Yangtze, etc. to all be autochthonous and essentially unrelated, since those river systems are separated by good span of geography.
• Piya Roy is a young marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. The Hungry Tide: Summary and book reviews of The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh.
• River dolphin that scientists have been searching for and have been unable to locate any of the species, they now believe it is extinct.
• Port River dolphins 'scalded'" 13/4/2010 Adelaide Now Wildlife Disease News Digest
• Description: The recent likely extinction of the baiji or Chinese river dolphin, makes the vaquita (Phocoena sinus)? the Gulf of California porpoise? the most endangered cetacean. Biodiversity 100: actions for the Americas