Many Amazon river dolphins are known to interact with people, but only Mocajuba dolphins are known to play with people ...

An Amazon river dolphin, also called a boto, pauses for an underwater portrait in Brazil. Photograph by Flip Nicklin, Minden Pictures, Nat Geo Image Collection. Please be respectful of copyright.

The carcasses of at least 125 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating or beached after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached a staggering 39.1 degrees Celsius.

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. In the video, the dolphin ...

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.

Amazon River Dolphins Are Facing Mass Die-Offs In Brazil. Story by Chris D'Angelo, Jason Gulley • 1mo. T EFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Jacuzzi-level temperatures of the Amazon River have killed more than 100 pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) in Brazil over the past week after more than 120 ...

Lake Tefé, a lagoon formation of the Tefé River near the point where it meets the Solimões, has been experiencing a historic drought this year, reaching just 4.5 meters (14.9 feet) — 13.5 m ...

After around 219 hours of observations, they can confirm that male Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis), also known as botos, often roll onto their backs and urinate over three feet into the air.

Amazon River dolphins are categorized as endangered on the IUCN Red List. The study was published in the journal Oryx, carried out by the University of Exeter and Peruvian conservation ...

Amazon river dolphins in steep decline: study (Update) May 2, 2018. Amazon dolphins at risk from fishing, dams and dredging. Jul 3, 2023. Two endangered pink dolphins rescued from shallow Colombia ...

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.