Baiji

Baiji

Order : Cetacea
Suborder : Odontoceti
Family : Platanistidae
Genus : Lipotes

Facts about the genus Lipotes, the baiji

Baiji are capable of short bursts of speed of up to 40 kilometers per hour, and can remain submerged for 6 to 7 minutes, so they were capable of covering a kilometer or two underwater while we searched the river’s surface for the gleaming dorsal fin that would tell us we had not yet lost them. (Full text)

Baiji are wary of boats and difficult to approach. (Full text)

Baiji is a city of northern Iraq; in the region of Mosul. (Full text)

Brownell and other foreign experts believe that the finless porpoises should be released from the reserve as soon as any baiji are introduced into it, so that the baiji are not forced to compete with the porpoises inside the reserve. (Full text)

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Recognition at sea: The only other cetacean inhabiting the same area as the Baiji is the Finless Porpoise. (Full text)

The baiji is an endangered river dolphin found exclusively in the lower Chang Jiang (Yangzi/Yangtze River) located in China. (Full text)

Baiji is: a city of northern Iraq. (Full text)

In the dark, merky waters that fill most of the Yangtze River in China, the Baiji is dying. (Full text)

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The Baiji is a [CITIES-listed Endangered Species] (Full text)

Lipotes is from the Latin, leipo, meaning “left behind. (Full text)

Threats: For the Baiji are getting trapped and tangled in fish nets, hunting, the destruction of their habitat, human disturbance, and pollution of the waters they live in. (Full text)

Deaths from entanglement in or electrocution by fishing gear, collisions with vessels, blasting for channel maintenance, and illegal harvesting of the baiji are at least partially responsible for the decline of its range and abundance. (Full text)

org) The baiji is a graceful animal, with a long, narrow and slightly upturned beak and a flexible neck. (Full text)

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A number of baiji are caught and killed by illegal fishing devices called rolling hooks. (Full text)

Baiji, Iraq Baiji is a city of about 60,000 inhabitants in northern Iraq some 130 miles north . (Full text)