SKIRMISHER

If you’re a human being, clap your hands or “jangle your jewelry,” as we’ve just scored a goal in our endless pursuit of species domination.

“An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team’s leader saying one of the world’s oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known as baiji, shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years. Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction.

A few baiji may still exist in their native Yangtze habitat in eastern China but not in sufficient numbers to breed and ward off extinction, said August Pfluger, the Swiss co-leader of the joint Chinese-foreign expedition.”

The bad thing about it was the Baiji was cute; maybe I wouldn’t care so much if it were those ugly bald vultures that always reminded you of “leaders” of government.

via CBS

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