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  2. Amazon river dolphin - Wikipedia

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    In traditional Amazon River folklore, at night, an Amazon river dolphin becomes a handsome young man who seduces girls, impregnates them, and then returns to the river in the morning to become a dolphin again. Similarly, the female becomes a beautiful, well-dressed, wealthy-looking young woman.

  3. Drought-threatened Amazon dolphins studied for climate change ...

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    The Amazon river dolphins, many of a striking pink color, are a unique freshwater species found only in the rivers of South America and are one of a handful of freshwater dolphin species left in ...

  4. River dolphin - Wikipedia

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    River dolphins are rather small, ranging in size from the 5-foot (1.5 m) long South Asian river dolphin to the 8-foot (2.4 m) and 220-pound (100 kg) Amazon river dolphin. They all have female-biased sexual dimorphism apart from Amazon river dolphin, with the females being larger than the males.

  5. Brazilian mythology - Wikipedia

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    As part of the TV show, The River is a sacred area and no one is to enter. Boto – an Amazon river dolphin encantado that shapeshifts into a handsome man to seduce young women (Amazon). After impregnating them, he would abandon the woman and never return to her village with the same disguise again.

  6. Amazon River Dolphins Are Facing Mass Die-Offs In Brazil

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    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 ...

  7. The Ultimate List: 101 Animals That Start With ‘A’ - AOL

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    Amazon River Dolphin These dolphins are also referred to as Pink River Dolphins. They are not only unique because of their coloring, but they are one of the few species of dolphin that can bend ...

  8. Boto - Wikipedia

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    An Amazon river dolphin Boto is a Portuguese name given to several types of dolphins and river dolphins native to the Amazon and the Orinoco River tributaries. A few botos exist exclusively in fresh water , and these are often considered primitive dolphins.

  9. Protector of the pink dolphins: Fernando Trujillo’s quest to ...

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    Venturing deep into the complex waterways of the Amazon, Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo first set out to study the mysterious pink river dolphin in 1987, at the directive of the late ...