Ironically, it is only in the last year or two that most people in Taiwan even became aware that there were "pink dolphins" (i.e. humpback dolphins) off Taiwan's coast, and scientists only began studying them seven or eight years ago, in sharp contrast to the situation with the bottlenose dolphins and spotted dolphins off Taiwan's east coast.
說來諷刺，一般台灣民眾聽聞台灣沿海有「白海豚」大約是最近一兩年的事，學界研究白海豚也不過才 7 ∼ 8 年，遠遠落後於東海岸的瓶鼻海豚、熱帶斑海豚等多種鯨豚。