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White Dolphin Functionally Extict

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the gone-the-way-of-the-dodo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years."

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  1. Oops! by justkarl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes me feel bad about the tuna sandwiches I had for dinner last night.

    1. Re:Oops! by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

      Rest assured that all your future tuna sandwiches will be White Dolphin free.

  2. Overloards by pseudorand · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, morn the loss of our potential aquatic overlords.

  3. Re:I can only say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't kid yourself. If a white dolphin ever got the chance he'd eat you and everyone you care about.

  4. '60s TV reference alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They called him Fripper, Fripper ...

  5. Re:Why do we care all that much? by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny
    More than 995% of all zoological diversity, in total, ever, is extinct. Why do we need to sweat it


    Because maybe one of those extinct species was good at statistics.
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    Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
  6. Re:Why do we care all that much? by Zaatxe · · Score: 5, Funny

    "First they came for the white dolphin, but I didn't say a word because I'm not a white dolphin..."

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    So say we all
  7. Well that sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's the dolphin bits that give tuna that great taste.