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Once again, I bring you content that I consider to be of quality, this takes several hours of reading, comprehension and writing.💡📚

But more than that, this is one more publication so that together we can appreciate and contemplate how wonderful our ocean is!

🦈🦀🐢🐳🐙 I hope you enjoy it!🐟🦈🦀🐢🐳

Photos by @eolianpariah📸
📍West Coast of India

Some time ago, a very interesting post came from @eolianpariah to our #AquaticSentinels community, who kindly shared his photographs captured in the West Coast of India, you can read his full post here👇 https://peakd.com/hive-154473/@eolianpariah/strange-creature-washed-up-on

We took on the task of making an identification through the photos, apparently it was Neophocaena phocaenoides (Indo-Pacific finless porpoise), although in reality we knew very little about them...

That is why the following post is dedicated to the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, a species that needs special care to ensure its preservation, it has already shown itself to adapt very well to human care!

Photo by CGTN📸
📍Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China

👉Join us until the end of this post to find out all the details👈...

_{The following information is taken from: Wang, J.Y. , Reeves, R. (2017). "Neophocaena phocaenoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017.3. ISSN 2307-8235. Adapted by @juanbg}

Porpoises, animals that look like "little dolphins"🐬

We find a large number of species when it comes to dolphins, different sizes and colors we will see in this family. On the other hand, porpoises are actually less known, so far only 6 species of porpoises are recognized, including the famous vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus)(we did another post about vaquita here) and also the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides), unfortunately the two species find themselves in situations that are not good at all😞

Photo by CGTN📸
📍Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China

"Sunameri"😄

"Sunameri" is the common name they receive in the waters of Japan, although it also lives in the coastal waters of Asia, especially in India, China, Indonesia and Japan. An impressive fact is that in addition to living in salt water, there is also a freshwater population in the Yangtze River in China!

Photo by CGTN📸
📍Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, China

The name "finless porpoise" is due to the fact that they do not have a dorsal fin, so it would be somewhat difficult to confuse it with a dolphin. Young are darker gray in color, while adults are light gray. They are considered small marine mammals, measuring a little over a meter and a half in length and weighing between 30-45 kg. They feed on various species of fish and crustaceans.

Its population decreases every day📉

In 2006, a research estimated that there were only about 400 specimens left in the Yangtze River!
According to IUCN, and its last evacuation in 2017, it is a species that usually lives in shallow waters, the maximum depth reported is only 164 feets, this is one reason why many tend to die in fishing nets...

Most likely this is a reason why there are strandings of the species, and this is probably the reason for the sighting of @eolianpariah, interesting, right?🤔 And the following photos are similar too

Photo by Markus Baur📸
📍Vietnam

Photo by shangpan📸
📍Kumamoto, Japan

Conservation efforts

I have had the privilege of working with marine animals under human and professional care in order to generate more information about the species and in this way contribute to their conservation...

The main conservation strategy for the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise is precisely reproduction under human care, here is a video (courtesy of CGTN China) where we observe the relocation of porpoises to their natural habitat after they have passed for human care.

If we were to choose a guilty for the critical situation of our oceans of course we would have to look at ourselves, but we are also solely responsible for carrying out conservation plans for our species... and you, what are you doing for our oceans?

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