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Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...
Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.
Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient ...
Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...
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Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...
The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.
Oh, the weather is warming up, the birds are chirping, and downtown is blossoming with haikus. No, a haiku isn’t something you can eat — it’s a poem of 17 syllables in three lines of five, seven, and ...
I’ve been thinking about the poem Animals by Frank O’Hara with its often quoted final lines 'O you/ were the best of all my days’ – words that feel so timeless that they could have been ...