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Published: 2020-01-18 01:48:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 15455; Favourites: 612; Downloads: 0
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Doodle rápido a color inspirado por tristes noticias; el pez espátula gigante ha sido declarado extinto. Éste antiquísimo pez se encontraba en el río Yangtzé y podía medir hasta siete metros de longitud; fue visto por última vez en 2003, y búsquedas subsecuentes en los años siguientes fallaron en encontrar un solo individuo. El río Yangtzé rápidamente está perdiendo sus especies nativas, y el planeta lo último que queda de su megafauna.Lo más trágico es que el pez espátula era un animal muy poco conocido, y uno de solo dos especies de pez espátula que han sobrevivido hasta la actualidad.
NOTA- Por ahí he cometido un pequeño error de anatomía con el pez, asumiendo que sería similar a su pariente, el pez espátula americano. Ya lo corregiré después (o no, si es que se me olvida...
)Quick color doodle inspired by sad news; the giant Chinese paddlefish has been declared extinct. This ancient fish was found in China's Yangtze river, and could grow up to seven meters long; it was last seen alive in 2003, and subsequent searches failed to find any individuals. It joins the baiji or Chinese river dolphin as the Yangtze river continues to lose its wildlife, and the world the last of its megafuana. The saddest part is how little known it was, and how it was one of only two paddlefish species to have survived into modern day.
NOTE- I made a mistake when it comes to the fish' anatomy, as I assumed it would be similar to its American relative. I will correct it later (or not, If I forget about it...
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Freaking Chinese superstition also plays a part in driving other animals toward extinction.
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La verdad es que no tiene nombre lo que está pasando con los animales
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I still have hope that somewhere in or nearby the Yangtze, the two species still live on for another few million years.
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I wish the Chinese doesn't careless because all animals are overpopulated
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Malheureusement, même s'il n'était pas éteint, il est probablement trop rare pour jamais se remettre... u-u
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La même chose peut être vraie pour la spatulaire chinoise. La rivière est devenue un environnement très hostile pour toute créature, vraiment. :/
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They will update on June though. I hope we find some alive before then.
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Descanze en paz ésta especie y que el recuerdo de sus existencia permanezca siempre 
Somos un asco de especie y un fracaso de la naturaleza extinguiendo a otras bellas especies y contaminando y exterminando sus hogares
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Was it hunted to extinction, or died from a polluted yangtze? (sadly, probably both). Now the poor ol' American paddlefidh has no living cousins
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Mostly pollution; the Commies have been wantonly using the Yangtze as an open sewer from the day Mao usurped power. Never mind his evilness, That colossally incompetent boob couldn’t have managed a small greenhouse without it turning into a radioactive waste dump. More infamously well known is how The eastern Chinese honey bee has been extinct DIRECTLY from his policies and its Western cousins from the still mostly clean Western highlands have YET to adapt well enough to the toxic air to migrate East to replace them. Subsequently, farmers have the added burden of having to pollinate everything BY HAND.
China is proof that it is possible to (very) slowly commit suicide by boondoggle.
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i heard about the farmers being forced to pollinate their own crops because their bees disappeared, but yeah it's not a good idea to be an endangered species in China
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This is why Laissez-faire Capitalism was only bad for the environment when the average participants in the market were ignorant of their own long term actions. The effects of pollution are an INHERENTLY self correcting market force, as they are impossible to ignore after a certain threshold of empirical data is provided to the consumers which will then naturally find rational ways to fix the problem.
Bureaucracies fix less and less the bigger they become. It is insane for sincere environmentalism to be stapled to far leftist policies, because China proves that environmentalism and accomplishment are mutually exclusive terms within a far left paradigm.
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So sad 
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genial, primero con el rinoceronte negro occidental, después con el koala, ahora con el pez espátula, se que van a venir tiempos oscuros, muy oscuros......
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I couldn't believe when i read it, i feel so sad, no one of us will ever got the chance to see one of them
Why such things have to happen...
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From my belief, mankind has abused and, with some unwittingly misused his role as caretaker of this planet. Extinction happens, because of man's mistake both intentionally and unintentionally.
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At least we still have paddlefish in the US. They're still pretty endangered though. I've seen a few at a hatchery, they're really cool. It's a shame that they're extinct in even one area, though.
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Yes, although the Chinese species was apparentlt very different, ecologically and anatomically. It seemingly was a predator of smaller vertebrates rather than a planktivore, for example. So it was a very unique creature.
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Oh, dang. It's always sad to see a species go extinct though.
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May no more of the Yangtze's beasts be subject to that Obelus whose collection of death keeps growing.
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Don’t bet on that; “I died of red tape” would be on a lot of gravestones in that country, but the quarry has yet to get all the permits to carve them.
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Poor majestic creature.
Regarding their fate sealed by overfishing: heartless fools, they know not what they do.
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All the chinese care about is their stupid cocksucking "panda diplomacy", they don't care a whit for actual even handed conservation.
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I cannot agree with you more.
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Or at least the government, you can't really make those generalizations about the people
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Good conservation should be at least partly funded by the government, Chins is too wed to progress, which is why this dam business has doomed multiple species.
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It's basically this trope:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…
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Most likely also the reason why broadcasts covering the Australian bushfires mostly show koalas and some kangaroos. I think the only other animal I saw was a dead budgie. The ones about the heavy rainfalls also mainly show koalas, although crocodiles were briefly shown.
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And to say nothing of them stubbornly clinging on to their traditional medicine that requires things like rhino horns or bear bile, no matter how many scientific studies tell them that these things have no medicinal properties. It's one thing when animals have to die for human benefit, but it's another when they're being wiped out purely due to a myth that doesn't benefit anyone. And you never see a panda in a bear bile torture chamber farm.
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Viagra’s introduction came within a hair’s breadth of ending Rhino poaching, giving them about a ten year reprieve, but an aggressive propaganda campaign from the traditional medicine lobby with ties to top Chicoms, reinforced with savvy salesmen, got the foul trade flowing again. I think a popular pitch has been that rhino horn is easier on older men’s hearts, which is TECHNICALLY true, it doesn’t actually make you hard, either, but you certainly don’t have to worry about the blue pill’s side effects 🙄
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