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  • noun A freshwater dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), also known as the Yangtze River Dolphin, only found in the Yangtze River. Recently declared functionally extinct.

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Examples

  • Consider the case of the Yangtze River dolphin, a long-beaked, nearly blind cetacean also known as the baiji, that inhabited about 1,000 linear miles of a single river in southeast China.

    Scientists work hard to avoid declaring a species extinct 2011

  • He sighed: Over the past twenty years the baiji has been the victim of politics and scientific disputes.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • He sighed: Over the past twenty years the baiji has been the victim of politics and scientific disputes.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • He sighed: Over the past twenty years the baiji has been the victim of politics and scientific disputes.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The baiji was a playful animal that dined on the Yangtze's once plentiful fish and was traditionally venerated by the region's people.

    Glenn Hurowitz: The Earth's Decade 2009

  • Yangtze river dolphin - Also known as the baiji, this is the only living representative of an entire family, having diverged from other river dolphins more than 20m years ago.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • He returned to San Deigo, Calif., last week after a fruitless six-week expedition in which teams of five observers on two vessels scoured the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai, seeking the last members of the rarest cetacean species of all, a white, nearly blind dolphin called the baiji, Lipotes vexillifer. . .

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • He returned to San Deigo, Calif., last week after a fruitless six-week expedition in which teams of five observers on two vessels scoured the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai, seeking the last members of the rarest cetacean species of all, a white, nearly blind dolphin called the baiji, Lipotes vexillifer. . .

    Hic jacet Lipotes vexillifer: Here lies the baiji 2006

  • (02/23/2010) In 2006 a survey in China to locate the endangered Yangtze River dolphin, known as the baiji, found no evidence of its survival.

    Mongabay.com News Jeremy Hance 2010

  • In the end, they couldn’t decide, so the baiji is the victim.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

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