If you ask anyone what a dolphin eats, you’ll probably get the same answer: fish! After all, fish are abundant in all the ...

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 ...

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 Amazon River is home to some of the most diverse and mysterious wildlife on Earth. Beneath its murky waters lurk strange ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Pink river dolphins, also known as Amazon river dolphins, are found around the Amazon river basin. They are the largest species of river dolphin, with adult males growing up to 8.2 feet long, ...

(CNN) — Picture a dolphin. Now imagine one that’s twice the size of a person. Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern ...

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists. Mysterious behaviour may be form of communication. Vishwam Sankaran. Thursday 06 February 2025 11:57 GMT.

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t bizarre enough, other males will usually seek out the urine as it ...