for example, near the mouth of the yangtze, the baiji was a princess that had lost her parents and had lived with her stepfather, whom she had longed to get away from. the stepfather wanted to trade her since she would be sold for a great sum of money, but as they were crossing the river to get to the trader, a storm rolled in. the enraged stepfather tried to take her, but she plunged herself into the river, was transformed into a dolphin before she drowned, and swam away from her abusive stepfather, who also fell in and was transformed into a porpoise.