A keeper plays with a finless porpoise, a cousin of the baiji ...
16th Nov 2006, 13:54 GMT
(AFP) - A keeper plays with a finless porpoise, a cousin of the baiji dolphin and one of five in Wuhan Baji Aquarium. The finless porpoise has proved it can survive and breed in China's mighty but polluted and traffic-choked Yangtze river. Scientists estimate only 2,000 of the small dark grey mammals survive in the wild. The finless purpose is about to be added to the most endangered species list this year and will join other critically endangered animals that are indigenous to China.(AFP/Peter Parks)