| For as long as I can remember I've always loved | | | | believe that the species is now extinct. |
| dolphins. Here are three endangered dolphins that need | | | | While changing now doesn't bring a whole species |
| our utmost attention. | | | | back, and I may be just another one of those voices |
| Sadly, as Hayden Pannetiere put in our collective | | | | protesting - the only way I could help, I guess, is by |
| attention late last year, thousands and thousands of | | | | putting forth what we, as a species can look forward |
| the species are slaughtered for their meat or oil. The | | | | to help. |
| video spreading out last year wasn't pretty either. It | | | | Irrawaddy Dolphin - While this dolphin doesn't look |
| was like watching a snuff film - where the blood of the | | | | necessarily like the common types of dolphins we see |
| victim was force-fed to the family. (That last scene, | | | | on tv, mugs, rings, stuffed toys and pillows - it is part of |
| where the blood was dumped right back into the | | | | the dolphin family, and is still worth saving. It is easily |
| ocean?) As brutal as that was, it showed that, while | | | | recognizable from its rounded, rather than elongated |
| the world may agree on a lot of things, endangering a | | | | head. Its dorsal fin is shorter than average and is |
| whole species doesn't seem to be that big of an issue. | | | | triangular in shape. It reaches a length of about 2.3 m |
| Human threats are the number one cause for the | | | | and weighs over 280 pounds in maturity. As a fun bit |
| extinction of a species of dolphins. Several river dolphin | | | | of trivia, during the 1970s, Burmese fishermen used to |
| species are now facing a horrible fate by being on the | | | | call on to the dolphins by tapping the sides of their |
| endangered species list. As of 2006, a survey was | | | | boats to goad the dolphin to swim around it. Doing so |
| conducted and not one sample of the Yangtze River | | | | attracts fishes, and when the fishermen have the fish |
| Dolphin could be obtained, leading protection groups to | | | | trapped in a net, they share their catch with the dolphin. |