45 years ago today, on January 12, 1980 (November 25, 1979 lunar calendar), Hunan Yueyang Lingji caught a live baiji dolphin. Baiji Dolphin is catching Baiji Dolphin On January 12, 1980, Hunan Yueyang Lingji Fishery Production Team caught a live baiji dolphin at the mouth of Dongting Lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It was the first live baiji dolphin captured in our country at that time and the first live baiji dolphin in the world. The baiji dolphin, which lived in the Yangtze River for about 25 million years, is an ancient relic species that has survived from the Miocene and Pliocene. Baiji dolphin is a small individual member of the cetacean family. It is the smallest surviving one of the five existing freshwater dolphins in the world (La river dolphin, Asian river dolphin, Ganges river dolphin, Indian river dolphin, and Baiji dolphin). Due to the small number, Baiji dolphin is not only listed as a first-class protected animal in China, but also one of the 12 most endangered animals in the world. Baiji dolphin is also known as Baiji, Baiji dolphin, and Baiqi. Vertebrate phyla, mammals, cetaceae, and toothed cetaceae. Originally belonging to the freshwater dolphin family, in the late 1970s, according to the suggestion of Chinese scientist Professor Zhou Kaiya, Baiji dolphin was established separately. The only species of Baiji dolphin in the cetaceae. It is a freshwater It is also found in Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake and Qiantang River.