Is This The Only One Pink Dolphin In The World?

Pink River Dolphin


Pink River Dolphin

Pink Dolphin

It is rarely to see a pink bottlenose dolphin circulating in a Louisiana lake. This mammals picture was taken by a local charter boat captain Erik Rue which is currently studying dolphins animals since it was first shown in Calcasieu Lake, a brackish water area located in the northern Gulf of Mexico, southwest U.S..
The Pink Dolphin lives in the Amazon Rainforest. It is usually found in the tributaries and main rivers of the Orinoco River systems in South America. This animal can stay summerged up to fifteen minutes in the rivers. Males sleep just below the surface and they come up to breathe as the reflex. The Pink Dolphin's body has adapted to the rivers of the Amazon.

The Pink Dolphin looks almost like the gray dolphin, but they have differences. It measures 2.5 to 3 meters long. Although males are generally larger. The color of its body is pale pink. Instead of having a dorsal fin like the gray dolphin, it has a hump on its back. The Pink Dolphin's tale is bigger and it has 2 flippers that look like big leaves. The Pink Dolphin's neck is kind of long and his head has a little hump in the forehead. His beak is long and has tiny hairs on top. This animal has tiny eyes. The Pink Dolphin can turn its head 180 degrees, all the way around since it has an unfused vertebrae. It weighs approximately 90 kilograms. The Pink Dolphin got its amazing pink color from the kind of water it lives in, and the kind of food it eats.

The Pink Dolphins eat a large quantity of food per day. They don't like to eat alone, therefore when they find a school of fish; they make a loud sound to call their pod. The pods or groups may dive below a school of fish and bring them to the surface. The kinds of fish they eat are crustaceans, catfish, and small fresh water fishes. During the night they hunt zooplankton. Almost all of the Pink Dolphin's adaptations help them find food.

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The Pink Dolphin does not have many adaptations. During the years it developed a long beak to get it's prey. Its small eyes are also an adaptation; it helps the animal see better in the water. Their flexible bodies help them swim faster and get more food. These dolphins can swim at a speed of up to 20 miles per hour. Some of the Pink Dolphin's adaptations can help him protect it self.

The Pink Dolphin does not have many enemies, so it has few ways to protect it self. One of the ways it protects it self is by staying with its pod or group. Another ways would be making squeaking sounds to call its pod. If a Pink Dolphin is alone, it will use it's long beak to protect it self. This animal also uses his flippers for protection and also for mating.

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The Pink Dolphin's sexual maturity age is unknown, but it does have a size when it is sexually mature. Males are 2 meters long when they are sexually mature, but females 1.7 meters when they are sexually mature. The mating season of the Pink Dolphins varies, but it is usually at the end of summer. Courtship rituals include lots of surfacing, breaching, flipper contact, and vocalizations. When they start mating, they hold onto each other with their flippers. Then fertilization takes place. Something strange is that same sex dolphins can reproduce. The Pink Dolphin's gestation period is from 9-12 months. The calf's lactation period lasts 18-20 months. This means the calf drinks milks from its mother from 18-20 months. Usually the Pink Dolphin that gives birth to the calf takes care of it with help of other dolphins from its pod. The mother raises and protects the calf for 1-3 years.

The calf's are protected a lot by their mother and by the mother's pod. They hide the calf's in their side to protect them. The mother covers with her body the calf. As the calf starts to get older, it leaves its mother, and gets a pod or group about the same age. With this group it protects it self from enemies.

The Pink Dolphin is a very nice and friendly animal. The only enemy it has is humans. Although the Pink Dolphin has 40% more brain capacity than humans do, it still gets killed and hurt by them.

The Pink Dolphin is endangered, because of humans. Humans are destroying the South American Tropical Rainforest. They are also dumping chemicals on the rivers. Another reason is that they get trapped in fishnets accidentally. Humans are killing and making a beautiful species extinct. To stop this they are trying to do captive breeding programs, but a Pink Dolphin only survives 4 hours outside of the waters.

Pink River Dolphin

The Pink Dolphin is an amazing mammal. It lives in the Amazon River. This animal has adapted overtime to survive. Humans endanger this animal. Humans are causing this friendly animal to become extinct, by destroying it's habitat. I would like this animal species to survive many years. I would like to be able to show t6he kids of the future the Pink Dolphin swimming in the Amazon Basin.

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Pink River Dolphin

Pink River Dolphin

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32 comments:

  1. thats cool, i want to do a project on them now, tehe!

    in the water they look red, i first saw them on the show Departures... i love that show!!!!!


    i would love to meet a pink dolphin!!!!!!


    COOL!!!!

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  2. these dolphins are so amazing! they're really pretty. EVERYONE should try to help protect them!

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  3. Thank you for providing such thorough and interesting information.

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  4. Wow they look so cute! I hope we can help save them. It's so sad that they only last 4 hours outside of waters.

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  5. they are adorable i would love to go swimming with a pink dolphin its a shame that there enemies with humans i want to change there way thinking that wew are gonna hurt them!!

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  6. Is the dolphin real or is it off of a movie??

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  7. It would be nice, if there were Pods and Pods of these magnificent pink dolphins. They're very beautiful and amazing.
    Even though there are programs on saving dolphins, whales and other marine life, many of those mammals die each year because of humans. It's sad, to see what man-kind is doing to these poor animals, who have done nothing to deserve dying. ( There are other reasons too, not just humans. )
    You picked a very interesting topic for your project, but never the less, it was great and I appreciate you sharing this wonderful information.
    :) Nice job, a project well-done!

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  8. Such a wonderful project, you did. Great job!

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  9. omg i love pink dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  10. Great Project!! I loved reading about and viewing the pics of the beautiful creatures!!

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  11. i would like to meet a pink dolphin thats so cool from jodie

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  12. i love dolphins! its so cool you did this. my little sister even decided to do her project on them. but it is really sad that so many are dieing,i feel so bad that humans are killing them and i hope they survive for thousands of more years.

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  13. This is awesome I've never seen somemany pictures on an endangered speice in its natural habitat.

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  14. Hi, Im from Hong Kong and there are pink dolphins that live around the city harbors and islands. So no, not only the amazon has pink dolphins.

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  15. are there any concrete plans to try to save these dolphins?? besides blogging, i mean...

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  16. These dolphins should be featured on the discovery channel. They are so beautiful.

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  17. OhmyGosh!!!
    Those wonderful creatures deserve better!
    I wish there were more of them, i feel guilty of being a human now.

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  18. wow i just read a book about that same dolphin its awsome thanks for letting me see it in a real picture instead of a picture in a book i love it!!!!!!

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  19. I'm from Venezuela now living in Canada. I saw these dolphins once in my country they are extremely amazing I didn't know it could be a pink dolphin and I saw at least 20 I was so impressed. They are very shy you can only see them when they go to the sea surface to seek for food, and it's almost impossible to swim with them

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  20. awesome!!!!!! if i was the person that created the pink dolphin

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  21. lets save our pink dolphins!They are amazing and rare..

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  22. amazing and i could guess u aced this project i really think we should save these beautiful creature they didn't do anything to deserve to be killed

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  23. Wow they are soo cool!!! I would love to see one in person.

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  24. Pink dolphins are amazing.They are also called encantado.

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  25. I LOVE THIS WEBSITE its great it even shows my
    fav dolphin ppppllleeaassseeee save the
    dolphin in any way!!!! just there sooooooooo
    cute

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  26. I Have A Pink Dophin lOl

    But iWould Luv 2 Have 1

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  27. a pink dolphin iz dat not real who as said dat?

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  28. I like the first picture! Its really cool!!

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  29. The pink dolphin is the most amazing mammal I have ever seen. So lets stop endangering thier lives.

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  30. 0mg thay are sooo BEAUTIFUL i never seen anything that pretty we should save them and let them live free!!!!!!!!!!!! ...ge0rglyn.H.

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  31. They are so beautiful!

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