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Yangtzse River dolphin 'now extinct'
Telegraph ^
| 08 Aug 2007
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 08/08/2007 8:38:26 AM PDT by BGHater
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To: BGHater
To: BGHater
Given the extreme concentration and focus of Chinese civilization and population around mailand China’s rivers and its ocean coasts - for more than 1,000 years - I am surprized this animal was not extinct before now. I wonder how many species of animal in Asia went extinct already - during the period of civilized humanity - before modern societies started tracking such events.
I wonder what competitors the Buffalo helped to extinction during the period when “native” Americans did all they could to insure the Buffalo’s dominance of the great plains.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:01:56 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: BGHater
....somehow the US (and George Bush) will get blamed for this....
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:23:22 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: BGHater
Don’t know how true it is but I once read that 99% of all species that have ever lived on this planet are now extinct.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:24:32 AM PDT
by
Clink
To: fish hawk
These things only lived in a very small part of one river in one country of the world. They didn’t mate well, and they were mostly blind. This species is was not exactly an evolutionary powerhouse. The idea that evolution on Earth has some how been stopped by environmenatl awarness is silly. There were only 5000 of these things 2300 years ago. It’s amazing they made it this long.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:24:42 AM PDT
by
azcap
To: BGHater
Up next for China’s extinction program - human girls.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:25:42 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Red Badger
Is it gone or is the water so polluted that it left?....... Left for where?
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:27:50 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
To: azcap
"This species is was not exactly an evolutionary powerhouse."
And yet they've been around for 20 million years.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:27:54 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: PurpleMan
“The grey white, long-beaked animal is the worlds first cetacean...to be made extinct by man.
Correction: Made extinct by the Chinese Communists”
Thank you. I noticed that too. Don’t blame this shiite on “mankind”, blame the damn Chinese, they did it.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:31:34 AM PDT
by
DesScorp
To: BGHater
now if only the spotted owl would follow
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:35:40 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: BGHater
I doubt it. The Yangtze water didn't kill Chairman Mao.
To: BGHater
More proof that the Reds only pretend to be Green in order to make the world Red.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:40:31 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Why did Mitt Romney cross the road??............Because there were votes on both sides, of course...)
To: Chipper
It's China though, so the Sierra Club/Greenpeace crowd is silent.Can't tear-jerk gobs of cash off of soccer moms and ignorant college kids in China.
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:45:27 AM PDT
by
Clam Digger
(NO REAL THAN YOU ARE!)
To: Non-Sequitur
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:51:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
To: fish hawk
Well, if you believe in Evolution you can still hope that another dolphin will evolve to take its place. No big deal. That's the real untold story here: they are not extinct. They have simply evolved into another species!
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:53:24 AM PDT
by
Ignatz
(NPC's have feelings, too!)
To: Navy Patriot
What kind of stupid logic is that?
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:53:59 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: Red Badger
North Korea...... Or Taiwan?
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posted on
08/08/2007 10:57:58 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
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To: fish hawk
Or the opposite, you believe one will spontaneously appear because an inteligent design requires them to “be there”.
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posted on
08/08/2007 11:07:00 AM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
Intelligent Design was in the beginning but Evolution is suppose to go on forever, right?
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posted on
08/08/2007 11:21:31 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: BGHater
The demise of the near-blind mammal also represents the first extinction of a large vertebrate (backboned animal) for more than 50 years, since overhunting claimed the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s. Not true. Democratuswithabackbonus became extinct in the 1960s.
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