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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. It Was The Sharks by aquatone282 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    . . . with frickin' laser beams that killed off the white dolphin>

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  2. Dolphin... by jalet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... Yum Yum !

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  3. Re:I can only say... by ErdosvillePhil · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Fuck you and everyone else who thinks like you. There is nothing artificial about human action. We are not separate from the ecosystem. Our use of machines, etc, is absolutely natural. We are animals, and like many other animals, we build natural things out of natural components.

    Is a gopher burrow unnatural? Is an ant hill unnatural? Is an otter cracking shellfish with a rock unnatural?

    No, and neither are human tools. They are fundamentally no different, they are a natural result of a natural organism using natural resources with ingenuity from their natural brain.

    We are a part of this ecosystem, and our actions in it as natural as any other part of the ecosystem, we just happen to be smarter and MUCH better at competeing than most other organisms. We follow the same patterns as many other organisms, we have formed symbiotic relationships with many plants, animals, and fungi. Our symbiotic relationship with penicillin has been a HUGE boost to our ability to compete, our symbiosis with dogs, cats, and grass, is probably not terribly useful to us, but helps those species while aiding our mental health.

    We are fundamentally natural, and so are all of our byproducts.

  4. Re:Oops! by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 0, Redundant
    o instead of feeling bad about the tuna sandwiches you had you should feel bad about the cheap DVD player you bought --
    Rest assured that all your future DVD players will be White Dolphin death free.
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  5. Their last words... by guruevi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Goodbye and thanks for all the fish!

    Now we'll just have to wait for those Vogon's

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