Summary
The vaquita is a tiny, adorable, panda-like porpoise, and they need your help. Listen to this episode fast, because sadly, it could expire any day. Species does not cover extinct animals, and this animal is on the brink. Find out all about the $20,000 bladder, the Chinese black market, and a guy who is not related to Chuck Norris on this episode of Species.
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| 0:00.0 | By the time you're listening to this, the Vakita might already be extinct. |
| 0:05.9 | In my lifetime, this species has been brought to its knees. |
| 0:10.8 | In 1997, there were between 500 and 600 Vakitas left. |
| 0:15.8 | In 2008, there were between 200 and 300. |
| 0:19.9 | In 2015, there were 59. And last year, there were 30. Today, there are 12. |
| 0:29.2 | Does this sound like a reversible trend to you? Realistically, what happens to him next year? |
| 0:36.6 | What fate awaits the Vakida in the new year? |
| 0:41.1 | There's a tendency to resign ourselves to just floating with the tide of history, but this |
| 0:46.0 | story, it's not over yet. |
| 0:49.2 | It's up to us to write the final chapters. |
| 0:53.0 | Today I'm going to read you this book, so to say, right up to its final pages. |
| 0:58.1 | Today I'm going to tell you about the Vakita. |
| 1:00.6 | Fasona Sinus. |
| 1:02.5 | How we might save them and why we might fail. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm Mackin. |
| 1:07.9 | This is Species. |
| 1:13.7 | Hey, welcome to the show. I got your tweets. I got the emails. I got all the texts |
| 1:17.9 | begging me to take a break for Christmas and all, but this Polar Express, it's going to keep on |
| 1:22.6 | chugging. We don't have time for a break. By the way, if you want an animal episode, if you have an |
| 1:27.0 | idea, |
| 1:33.8 | please go to Speciespodcast.com slash contact. This episode, like the last five, and at least the next two, is a listener request. I really love fulfilling listener requests. So if you want |
| 1:38.7 | to ask for an animal, please just go to Speciespodcast.com slash contact. And if you want to make it easier for me to make this show, you can go to Speciespodcast.com slash contact, and if you want to make it easier for me to make this show, |
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