I was reading an article on the Amazon dolphin on the June 2009 edition of National Geographic. It has nothing special to offer. However, there is a paragraph on the other river dolphins in the word. It mentioned the baiji, or Yangtze dolphin.
Suddenly as if a connection has been established and for some reason I felt very sad. I was full of anger when I heard about it's extinction 2 years ago. As of now, I just felt sad, as if a friend has died, although the only link between it and me is that I mentioned about it once on my blog.
A biologist in the article said “losing the baiji is like taking a chain saw to the cetacean tree of life. We've lost 20 million years of independent evolution”. Maybe there is a connection deep down there.
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