Posts Tagged ‘vaquita’

Vaquita One of the Rarest of the Rare

The Wildlife Conservation Society publishes its book State of the Wild on a regular basis with essays and articles covering issues in wildlife conservation.  In the current edition, an article “Rarest of the Rare”, highlights ten species thought to be among the most critically endangered of them all. What surprises me about this list?  Several [...]

I Know The Scientific Names Of Beings Animalculous: Part Two

The moment of truth has arrived. Let’s see if my attempts to memorize and list all the ocean going dolphins, all the porpoises, and all the freshwater dolphins have actually paid off. Family Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins) 1.  Atlantic bottlenose 2.  Indopacific bottlenose 3.  Atlantic spotted 4.  Indopacific spotted 5.  Atlantic humpbacked dolphin 6.  Pacific [...]