Andrews said the mammals - also known as Chinese white dolphins and pink dolphins - were moving back into parts of the Pearl River Delta that they typically avoided due to the ferries that connect ...

All species are either Critically Endangered (Irrawaddy and Yangtze finless porpoise) or Endangered (Amazon, Ganges, Indus and Tucuxi). A 7th species - the Chinese river dolphin - was declared ...

Also declared extinct in 2006, the Chinese Yangtze river dolphin was a pale, putty-coloured mammal that looked rather less sleek and elegant than its sea-swimming cousins. Its plain looks hid a ...

Even today, there are still a few dolphins living in rivers. All six species are currently very rare and threatened with extinction. As a relative of the Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer ...

[8] They hope finless porpoises do not follow the fate of the baiji, the Chinese river dolphin, which is also a freshwater cetacean. It has not been spotted in the wild for 20 years and was ...