English Dictionary

baiji

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbaɪd͡ʒi/

名詞

A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River. Declared functionally extinct in 2006.

日本語の意味

ヤンツェ川に生息していた淡水イルカ（Lipotes vexillifer）。2006年に機能的絶滅と宣言されました。

Researchers examined the last confirmed baiji specimen in museum archives to better understand why the species disappeared.

研究者たちは、種が消えた理由をよりよく理解するために、博物館の記録にある最後に確認された揚子江の淡水イルカ（Lipotes vexillifer）の標本を調べた。

意味（1）

A freshwater dolphin (†Lipotes vexillifer), only found in the Yangtze River. Declared functionally extinct in 2006.

In 2006, he made a research trip to China to look for the baiji, also known as the Yangtze River dolphin. He and his colleagues searched the legendary river’s entire 1,700-kilometer main channel, twice. They counted nearly 20,000 large shipping vessels and more than a thousand fishing boats, but no river dolphins. At the end of their quest, they declared that the species was likely extinct, a conclusion now widely supported. For all the terrible harm that humans have done to cetaceans, drastically reducing their abundance and range, the baiji was the first of them that we ever completely extinguished. It happened in the 21st century.

baijis （ plural ）

baiji （ plural ）