Amazon River Dolphin Research Paper

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Did you know that dolphins can be pink, or any other color than the normal shiny grey?
There is a species of dolphin that differ in many colors, such with pink, some grey and ect.
There is many types of endangered dolphin and non- endangered dolphins,especially the river dolphin. River dolphins having different features and specify habits which can leading to good and bad consequences such as endangerment. These dolphins are unique color and friendly,curious toward to people.

River dolphins live in the mightiest rivers into world, also which can be know to be the most populated and poorest paces on the earth (wff.panda.com) River dolphin are any of the six species of the small ,usually living in freshwater aquatic mammal are closely related
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The first dolphin is the Amazon river dolphin. The Amazon river dolphin also called the boto, bufeo and pink dolphin . Amazon dolphin get this nicknames from have the strange bright pink to mottled pink-and- grey tone of skin,also sometimes just grey. ( britannica.com, 2017) The juveniles are dark grey bit when they mature it get lighter color giving them a magical look to them (marine bio.com,2017) This dolphin lives in the Amazon and Orinoco basins river in the Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, and Venezuela. ( world wildlife fund.org, 2017) The diet of dolphin is they feed on lathe variety of fish generally near the bottom including Amazon catfish and as well as other river fish including piranhas and as well crustance. Also these dolphins will herded in the fish on 5he fishing nets and raided the fishing nets for food sometimes. Sometime they feed with Sotalia. A sotalia is a estuarine dolphin, this dolphin found in the coastal waters to the north and east of South America. The Amazon dolphin can reach up to be 5 to 8 feet long and can weight up to 300 pounds. These unique pink dolphin have hair at their bottom of their beaks for the use of smelling for prey in the muddy waters. These dolphin can be found in pairs or alone. ( marine …show more content…
Most of these dolphins live in the same habitat areas. Having some of the most rarest Dolphins to the most endangered dolphins. All these dolphins are you an equally different and the same compared to other dolphins. River dolphins are all have evolved from Dolphins from 23 to 5 million years ago. The river dolphins are the are very friendly and curious to people. With the endangered species of river dolphins which contain the the Chinese, the Indus and the Ganges is all have similar why of of endangerment. Having these dolphins in danger and some of them have no point of return that only thing humans can do is to minimize Construction the capturing of these dolphins. All these river dolphins have evolved into using tactics to help them survive by change in different ways of feeding and and swimming. With not as much species of Oceanic dolphins the only living in rivers they have shown much recommendation. Three dolphins having such a wide variety of colors helped blend in . These dolphins

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