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As a part of the project, October 5th has been designated as "National Dolphin Day" by the environment ministry. [7] As a part of the project, a dolphin breeding center for the Gangetic river dolphin is planned in the Bengal region in the stretch of the Ganges river between Farakka and Gangasagar. [8]
Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is located in Bhagalpur District of Bihar, India. The sanctuary is a 60 kilometers stretch of the Ganges River from Sultanganj to Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district. notified as Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary in 1991, it is the protected area for the endangered Gangetic dolphins in Asia. Once found in ...
The Ganges river dolphin split from the Indus river dolphin during the Pleistocene, around 550,000 years ago. [1] The earliest fossil identified as belonging to the species is only 12,000 years old. [12] The Ganges river dolphin was formally classified as Delphinus gangeticus two separate times in 1801, by Heinrich Julius Lebeck [13] and ...
National Chambal Sanctuary, also called the National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, is a 5,400 km 2 (2,100 sq mi) tri-state protected area in northern India for the protection of the Critically Endangered gharial, the red-crowned roof turtle and the Endangered Ganges river dolphin. Located on the Chambal River near the tripoint of ...
South Asian river dolphins are toothed whales in the genus Platanista, which inhabit the waterways of the Indian subcontinent.They were historically considered to be one species (P. gangetica) with the Ganges river dolphin and the Indus river dolphin being subspecies (P. g. gangetica and P. g. minor respectively).
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A Research Project funded by State Government of Bihar for Survey of Gangetic dolphin and their habitats in River Ganga and Gandak, 2012. Principal Investigator, Collaborative Research Project with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan to study Pharmaceutical wastes and drug resistant ...
The Ganges river dolphin, or "susu", is found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra, south Asia's largest river systems. It is among the most endangered mammals of the region. The Ganges river dolphin ranges from 2.3 to 2.6 meters in length. The tail fluke is on average 46 cm in width. Females are larger than males.