Open the Youtube video Amazon river dolphins (also called pink river dolphins or boto) are a quirky bunch. They’re more ...

Into this seasonal sea, which remains for half the year, swims the Amazon river dolphin, or boto. Botos have the characteristic dolphin smile and, unlike their marine cousins, bulbous foreheads ...

The population of the Tucuxi freshwater dolphin drops 50 percent every nine years. Models predict that the boto dolphins will be reduced by 95 percent within half a century. Why are the Dolphins ...

A dolphin was captured on camera urinating into ... According to the research, aerial urination "starts with a boto slowly positioning itself upside down, exposing its penis above water, and ...

But the locals have an even stranger tale; they've long told the story of Boto, the Amazonian River Dolphin species that turns pink. Surprisingly, it turns out that this bizarre tale is true.

During the region’s wet season (April to August) the tucuxi and the pink river dolphin–or boto in Portuguese–move into the floodplain forests called the várzea that border river channels in ...

Groups within the Amazon River basin of Peru long held that the river dolphin, or boto, could shape-shift into a seductive person and lure people to their death by drowning. One version of an ...

The study’s authors hypothesized that the male Amazon river dolphins may rely on their rostrum bristles to interpret their fellow boto’s urine composition, such as hormonal content indicating ...

A photo of a river dolphin, or “boto,” seemingly posing for the camera at dusk, with the tip of its nose above the water and the sun setting behind it, has won the 2023 Underwater Photographer ...

The Amazon river dolphin, or boto, is an integral feature of the rainforest’s biodiversity and culture, and is central to several Indigenous tales. Even though the dolphin isn’t fished for ...

The crisis has shaken local communities, some of which earn a living through ecotourism built around dolphins, which are also known as boto or bufeo and hold folkloric significance in the Amazon.

The first is the Amazon river dolphin, also known as the boto (Inia geoffrensis), which is found in the freshwater systems of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in South America. These dolphins ...