"Functionally extinct"

[Daddee]

A sad announcement about the baiji - a freshwater dolphin in China.
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"Only small minds want always to be right."
- Louis XIV

"...haven't you lived long enough to know that two men may honestly differ about a question and both be right?"
- Abraham Lincoln

[LongStoryShort]

It happens.
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Happiness is being high on the food chain.

[IGO]

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"Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir

[PageRob]

There are probably a few animals still out there, but that doesn't look too good for 'em. Some species have been able to recover after dipping as low as two animals, but for large bodied, slow-maturing animals like the river dolphin, that's likely not going to be enough.

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