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| [[Image:Chinese white dolphin.jpg|thumb|Adult Chinese white dolphin swimming off the coast of [[Lantau Island]], [[Hong Kong]].]] | | #REDIRECT [[Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin]] |
| The '''Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin''' ''(Sousa chinensis)''<ref>{{MSW3 Cetacea| id = 14300082 | page = 732 | heading = ''Sousa chinensis''}}</ref> is a species of humpback dolphin inhabiting coastal waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans.<ref name="Elsevier">{{Citation|last1=Jefferson|first1=Thomas A.|title=Re-assessment of the Conservation Status of the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin (Sousa chinensis) Using the IUCN Red List Criteria|volume=73|year=2016|journal=Advances in Marine Biology|pages=1–26|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-12-803602-0|last2=Smith|first2=Brian D.|doi=10.1016/bs.amb.2015.04.002|pmid=26790886}}</ref> This species is often referred to as the '''Chinese White Dolphin''' in mainland China, Macao, '''[[Hong Kong]]''', Taiwan and Singapore as a common name. In Hong Kong, boat trips to visit the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins have been running since the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.hkdolphinwatch.com | title=Hong Kong DolphinWatch Ltd}}</ref> In '''1997:''' The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin became the '''Official Mascot''' of the 1997 sovereignty changing ceremonies in Hong Kong. So therefore within the ''Autonomous Constituent'' country of [[Hong Kong]] ''(HKSAR)'' it is the designate '''Subnational animal of the Nationalist Hongkongese [[Devolution|Devolved Home-State-Local Rule]]'''{{refn|name=Gcounts|group=n|''“The Official designated subnational Hongkongese animal and Awarded faunae emblem of the [[Hong Kong]]” respectively''}}.
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| ==Cantonese slang==
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| The [[Cantonese|Cantonese language]] has a slang expression ''wu gei bak gei'' (often written as 烏忌白忌, "black [[taboo]] white taboo") which means someone or something is a bad omen or a nuisance. The phrase originates from the Cantonese fisher people, because they claim the dolphins eat the fish in their nets. However, in formal Chinese, it should be written as 烏鱀白鱀, with the ''gei'' originally in old Chinese, meaning dolphins. The ''wu'' refers to the [[finless porpoise]]s, which are black, and the ''bak'', white, referring to [[Chinese river dolphin]]s. These two species often interrupt and ruin the fishermen's catch. As years passed, because "dolphin" sounds the same as "bad luck", the meaning of the phrase changed.
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| However, in Cantonese, ''wu'' refers to the calves of Chinese white dolphin and ''bak'' refers to the adults. Nowadays, dolphins are not called ''gei'' anymore, but 海豚 (''hai tun''), literally meaning "sea pig", with none of the negative connotations for pig found in English.
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| == References ==
| | [[Category:Oceanic dolphins]] |
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