Pink river dolphins may sound like something out of a fairy tale, but are very much the real deal, and these pink creatures call the Amazon — as well as river basins in neighboring countries ...

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 quirky ...

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists. ... holding fishermen’s oars and playing with sticks, clay, rocks, logs, and turtles.

It took several days of observation before researchers and local fishermen found the best way to catch the Amazon river dolphins they were studying in the largest lake in the Amanã Sustainable ...

In early October 2023, it was reported that more than 120 pink river dolphins had been found dead in Lake Tefé, which is connected to the Amazon River.Local scientists hypothesize that the deaths ...

The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating on a tributary of the Amazon River since last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.

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.

She said 300 dolphins died in 2023, most of them in Lake Tefe, a 45km-wide expanse of water where the dolphins like to be located, just off the Solimoes River.. The lake’s water reached 40.9 deg ...

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists. Vishwam Sankaran. ... holding fishermen’s oars and playing with sticks, clay, rocks, logs, and turtles.

The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.

Low river levels during a severe drought have heated water in stretches to temperatures that are intolerable for the dolphins, researchers believe. Thousands of fish have died recently on Amazon ...