But it's the Ganges river dolphin and the Irrawaddy dolphin which give the most cause for concern.

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The Yangtze river dolphin made news because scientists think that it may now have been driven to extinction.

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Earlier this year the baiji or Yangtse River Dolphin was declared probably extinct, and the Critically Endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) - another species restricted to a small, specific habitat - will follow suit without swift action, conservationists believe.

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Dolphin will get just three reserves: Songimvelo, Loskop Dam and Blyde River Canyon.

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Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.

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