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balrus-balrogwalrus t1_iy4pozq wrote

people churn out lots of money to save charismatic endangered animals like pandas or tigers or rhinos or sharks

while the chinese paddlefish just sort of went extinct under the radar since it was just a "boring old fish" and few people cared to protect it

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KamiComi t1_iy5vepc wrote

Having only just learned of this fish's existence after reading this post, I still don't care.

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