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The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River.
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. ...
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 in the 2023 drought that sent ...
Scientists are perplexed by a strange new behaviour shown by the Amazon river dolphin of flipping belly-up to urinate with another male “actively” seeking the stream with its snout.. The ...
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.
Species Inia humboldtiana – Orinoco river dolphin; IUCN Classification. Genus Inia. Species Inia geoffrensis – Amazon river dolphin. Amazon Subspecies I. g. geoffrensis; Bolivian Subspecies I. g. boliviensis; Orinoco Subspecies I. g. humboldtiana; Society For Marine Mammalogy Classification. Genus Inia. Species Inia geoffrensis – Amazon ...
More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
Marmontel said most of the dolphins that perished last year were in Lake Tefé, a 45-km-wide (27-mile) expanse of water where the dolphins like to be located, just off the Solimoes River.