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The Amazon rainforest is famous for being home to an incredible ... The river is also home to some fascinating aquatic life including pink river dolphins. Exploring this ecosystem offers a ...
The Amazon River is home to some of the most diverse and mysterious wildlife on Earth. Beneath its murky waters lurk strange ...
The Detroit Zoological Society’s Amazon program equips students with supplies and knowledge—linking conservation and ...
Deep in the Amazon, there's a creature that defies expectations - pink river dolphins. In this episode, we get up close with these rare freshwater mammals and explore how they’ve adapted to life ...
A video of an Amazon river dolphin urinating in the air has caught the internet's attention. Originally filmed in 2016, the footage has resurfaced online, sparking widespread reactions and curiosity.
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 ...
Amazon river dolphins live in murky waters where visibility is limited. Unlike marine dolphins, they seem to exploit chemical signals to interact. Urine sprayed into the air might contain information ...
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.
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.
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 ...
TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of ...
TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging ...