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Posted Tue Jun 29 2010: from
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Finless porpoises in China on brink of extinction http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1277809223
Finless porpoises, a rare type of toothed whale, may be even more endangered than previously thought.
A survey of finless porpoises in Asia has revealed there are two species, not one, and that they rarely intermingle.
More worrying, finless porpoises living in the freshwater of China's Yangtze river are genetically unique, say scientists, who warn that greater efforts must be made to prevent these animals, numbering fewer than 1000, from following another Yangtze cetacean, the Baiji, to extinction.... "The most recent field survey conducted in 2006 suggested that there were around 1000 individuals in the Yangtze River," says Prof Yang.
"This is much smaller than previous estimates, suggesting a significant population decline in the past two decades."
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