All 13 are wild? None in zoo or sanctuary? --Menchi 17:09 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- I think there is a single captive animal. I'll go check and update the article either way. --Dante Alighieri 20:09 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Apparently he died last year around this time. :-( --Menchi 22:33 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Good source, but all-Chinese (Simplified Chinese): 中国白鱀豚网 (Baiji Dolphin Net of China). It's got some GIGANTIC pictures I dare not download. --Menchi 22:33 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Good work on that research! I imagine researching Baiji is easier if you can read Chinese. :) I read somewhere else that the "nickname" for the Baiji translated to "Giant Panda of the Yangtze River". Is that more or less appropriate than the translation given in the article? --Dante Alighieri 23:47 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Intentional typos
A popular Chinese "typo". The character jì (鱀) is a virtual impossibility to type or find due its outmost rarity in usage -- which besides Baijin dolphin is next to none. Most input programs don't include this character and basically all dictionaries don't have this character. So instead, people type 暨 (a rare surname), which is pronounced the same, and the physique differs only by the buttom half (魚 and 旦, the former being the radical, and the latter has 日 as its radical). An alternative replacement is 鳍 or 鰭, which is pronounced qí and is actually the name of another species of fish, more common. --Menchi 22:33 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)