Over four years, a team from Canada’s CetAsia Research Group traveled to the Amazon river, where they then closely watched ...

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. At such a critical ...

Every spring the Amazon dolphins get to leave the confines of their river channel for a taste of their former habitat. At the Mamirauá Reserve in western Brazil, where Tony Martin of the ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to ...

There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia ... opening the freshwater habitat to the ancestors of extant pink river dolphins.

Recent research has focused on understanding the distribution, habitat requirements, and the impact of anthropogenic factors on river dolphin populations. By employing various scientific methods ...

Scientists studying Amazon river dolphins in Brazil have observed males spraying urine into the air, a ritual for communication.

The region around the lake is a key habitat for mammals and other aquatic ... the Mamiraua environmental institute, said. The Amazon river dolphins — some pink in color — are a unique ...

This is especially critical in the case of the Irrawaddy dolphin subpopulation in the Mekong River. The initiative will support activities to prevent construction of the Sambor and Stung Treng dams in ...

The Amazon river dolphin is one of two freshwater dolphin species living in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. Only this species has evolved to explore the seasonally flooded forest habitat. “River ...