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  2. Amazon river dolphin - Wikipedia

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    Male Amazon river dolphins are either solid pink or mottled grey/pink. The Amazon river dolphin is the largest river dolphin. Adult males reach a maximum length and weight of 2.55 metres (8.4 ft) (average 2.32 metres (7.6 ft)) and 185 kilograms (408 lb) (average 154 kilograms (340 lb)), while females reach a length and weight of 2.15 metres (7. ...

  3. Tucuxi - Wikipedia

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    The tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis), alternatively known in Peru bufeo gris or bufeo negro, is a species of freshwater dolphin found in the rivers of the Amazon basin. The word tucuxi is derived from the Tupi language word tuchuchi-ana, and has now been adopted as the species' common name. Despite being found in geographic locations similar to ...

  4. River dolphin - Wikipedia

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    River dolphins are rather small, ranging in size from the 5-foot (1.5 m) long South Asian river dolphin to the 8-foot (2.4 m) and 220-pound (100 kg) Amazon river dolphin. They all have female-biased sexual dimorphism apart from Amazon river dolphin, with the females being larger than the males.

  5. Drought-threatened Amazon dolphins studied for climate change ...

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    The Amazon river dolphins, many of a striking pink color, are a unique freshwater species found only in the rivers of South America and are one of a handful of freshwater dolphin species left in ...

  6. Aquatic mammal - Wikipedia

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    Aquatic mammal. An Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), a member of the infraorder Cetacea of the order Cetartiodactyla. Aquatic mammals and semiaquatic mammals are a diverse group of mammals that dwell partly or entirely in bodies of water. They include the various marine mammals who dwell in oceans, as well as various freshwater species ...

  7. Amazon River Dolphins Are Facing Mass Die-Offs In Brazil

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    September 14, 2024 at 8:00 AM. Bones from an Amazon pink river dolphin are embedded in dried mud along the banks of Lake Tefé in Tefe, Brazil, on Oct. 31, 2023. More than 200 river dolphins died ...

  8. ‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon ...

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    Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest's waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. The historically ...

  9. Yacuruna - Wikipedia

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    Yacuruna. The Yacuruna are a mythical water people of the Amazon basin who live in beautiful underwater cities, often at the mouths of rivers. Belief in the Yacuruna is most prominently found among indigenous people of the Amazon. [1] The term is derived from the Quechua language, yaku ("water") and runa ("man").