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The baiji dolphin was a freshwater dolphin and the first to be driven to extinction by humans. This species is thought to have gone extinct in 2006.
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What are the color of Baiji Dolphins?
The Baiji Dolphin colors are pale,smoked gray as well as white on the Stomach
Which dolphins are most targeted by dolphin killers?
Bottlenose dolphin. The most endangered dophin is the Baiji or Chinese white dolphin
What are the names kinds of dolphins?
It may be hard to believe but there are approximately 36 different species of dolphins. There are 32 marine dolphins which live in oceans and salt water habitats and there are 4 river dolphins. If you add in the 6 porpoise species then there are 42 species. Some species of dolphins are bottlenose, white beaked, black, dusky, and Atlantic white-sided.
When did white tigers become extinct?
not yet
How do you save the white dolphin from extinction?
Become an animal rights activist and take progressive steps towards ending white dolphin extinction.
What are people doing to help the Chinese white dolphin from being extinct?
Stop polluting the waters and building buildings
Is the Atlantic White-sided Dolphin endangered?
I think white beaked dolphins live in tropical waters.
What bird most recently became extinct?
Actually it was not declared extinct... The Black Rhino is critically endangered.The Baiji DolphinFunctionally extinct by 2006.IUCN: database entry.Scientific name:Lipotes vexillifer.Picture source (Wikipedia).An expedition organized by The Baiji Foundation in late 2006 sought evidence that Baiji white dolphins still existed in their only habitat, the Yangtze river in China. Scientists from six nations on two research vessels travelled for almost 3500 kilometres to the Yangtze Delta, and then retraced their route. They were equipped with sophisticated optical instruments and underwater microphones, but were unable to detect any surviving dolphins. The Foundation published a report on the expedition and declared the species functionally extinct. What does functionally extinct mean? It means too few potential breeding pairs remain to ensure that the species will survive.
How did white elephants become extinct?
White elephants are not extinct but very rare. It is a gene combination that does not happen very often, but they do still exist.
How long until the White Tiger become's Extinct?
White tigers are all decended from a very small number of wild caught white tigers. There are very few if any white tigers currently in the wild. However as a white tiger can be born to two normal coloured tigers and is not a species in itself, it will go extinct when all tigers are extinct
What are some dolphin breeds?
Normal ocean going dolphins: Atlantic Humpbacked Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin Chilean Dolphin Clymene Dolphin Commerson's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin Fraser's Dolphin Heaviside's Dolphin Hector's Dolphin Hourglass Dolphin Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin Irrawaddy Dolphin Long-Beaked Common Dolphin Northern Rightwhale Dolphin Pacific White-Sided Dolphin Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Risso's Dolphin Rough-Toothed Dolphin Short-Beaked Common Dolphin Southern Rightwhale Dolphin Spinner Dolphin Striped Dolphin Tucuxi White-Beaked Dolphin River or fresh water dolphins: Baiji- Chinese river dolphin Boto- Amazon river dolphin Franciscana- La plata river dolphin Ganges River Dolphin Indus River Dolphin Dolphins that are also called whales: Orca- Killer whale False Killer Whale Pygmy Killer Whale Melon-Headed Whale Long-Finned Pilot Whale Short-Finned Pilot Whale
How many kinds of dolphins there are?
Here is a list of dolphins: Normal ocean going dolphins: Atlantic Humpbacked Dolphin Atlantic Spotted Dolphin Atlantic White-Sided Dolphin Bottlenose Dolphin Chilean Dolphin Clymene Dolphin Commerson's Dolphin Dusky Dolphin Fraser's Dolphin Heaviside's Dolphin Hector's Dolphin Hourglass Dolphin Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin Irrawaddy Dolphin Long-Beaked Common Dolphin Northern Rightwhale Dolphin Pacific White-Sided Dolphin Pantropical Spotted Dolphin Peale's Dolphin Risso's Dolphin Rough-Toothed Dolphin Short-Beaked Common Dolphin Southern Rightwhale Dolphin Spinner Dolphin Striped Dolphin Tucuxi White-Beaked Dolphin River or fresh water dolphins: Baiji- Chinese river dolphin Boto- Amazon river dolphin Franciscana- La plata river dolphin Ganges River Dolphin Indus River Dolphin Dolphins that are also called whales: Orca- Killer whale False Killer Whale Pygmy Killer Whale Melon-Headed Whale Long-Finned Pilot Whale Short-Finned Pilot Whale
