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White Flag Dolphin

Educational resources on White Flag Dolphin

White Flag Dolphin or Lipotes vexillifer is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Critically Endangered due to A1bc, C2b, D. IUCN Profile of the White Flag Dolphin

Academic web links for the White Flag Dolphin.


1996 WhaleNet Archive: Info:Rare Aquatic Animals Given Special ...
The white-flag dolphin is one of the world's most endangered species. With growing pollution in the region, the number of the Chinese river dolphins has decreased, and now there
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/whalenet96/0253.html

1997 WhaleNet Archive: Black Finless Porpoise Settle (fwd)
The rare mammals now live in the Tian'ezhou White-Flag Dolphin National Nature Reserve in central China's Hubei Province, free from the polluted water of the main course, and the
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/whalenet97/0228.html

WhaleNet Information Archive 1997: China Establishes First Dolphi (fwd ...
The white-flag dolphin, found only in China and under priority protection by the state, is one of the six types of fresh-water dolphins still surviving on the earth.
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/info97/0017.html

Three Gorges Dam - Geography
The effects of the dam in the White-flag dolphin’s habitat are expected to be tremendous. Due to environmental pressure of special interest groups in support of
carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link/3gdam02/geography.html

Whalenet Information Archive 2001: IWC 2001
Only one artificially-bred white-flag dolphin, a male, has survived at the Institute of Hydrobiology. The dolphin, named Qiqi, has been raised for 20 years and is the first in
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/info01/0042.html

Mammalian Species Accounts
White-flag Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius) White-tailed Mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda)
www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/msiaccounts.html

1996 Ask Archive: WHALES
Th e Chinese white flag dolphin (Lipotes vexifiller) used to live in Lake Tung Ting. 18) Are killer whales ever friendly ? YES!!! Killer whales are very tolerant of
whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask96/0080.html

Three Gorges Dam
Some have been bred in captivity at the Tian'ezhou White-Flag Dolphin National Nature Reserve in central China's Hubei Province. The giant Chinese river sturgeon breeds at Changshu
www.coe.montana.edu/ee/rmaher/ENGR125_FL06/Three%20Gorges%20Dam.pdf

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Technical ...
...(White‑flag Dolphin) 1974 Phocoena phocoena. Mammalian Species, No 42, by D. E. Gaskin et al. June
www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/whalekz.htm

Virginia Hayssen
Welcome to the complete list of the Mammalian Species accounts presented in ... 426, Boto Lipotes vexillifer, 10, White-flag Dolphin
www.science.smith.edu/departments/Biology/VHAYSSEN/msi/msigenus.html







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