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Pink river dolphin By: Monique Bonnett. Description. These friendly, sensitive, mammals with a brain capacity 40% larger than that of humans, who have lived in harmony with the people of the Amazon and its tributaries for centuries, now face extinction in some tributaries.
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Pink river dolphin By: Monique Bonnett
Description • These friendly, sensitive, mammals with a brain capacity 40% larger than that of humans, who have lived in harmony with the people of the Amazon and its tributaries for centuries, now face extinction in some tributaries. • The flippers are large and curve to a point with a ragged trailing edge. The body is plump yet tapers to the tail, and a humped dorsal ridge exists instead of an actual fin. The body color is blue-grey, vivid pink or off-white. Adults reach 2.6m in length, and weigh around 160kg. • The pink river dolphin is a sensitive, friendly mammal with a brain capacity of 40%bigger than humans. • There flippers are big and curve with a ragged trailing edge. There body is big and tappers at the tail a humped exist instead of a fin. The body color is pink .Adults are as long as 2.6m and are as wide as 160kg.
Thehistoricalhabitat • This is were the pink river dolphin lived before it was endangered.
The habitat • They usually live in slow moving waters , but during the flood they move into flooded grass lands and forests.
How did it get endangered. Dolphin Flesh as Fish Bait Entangled in Fish Nets Dam Construction River Traffic River Contamination Humans, the Greatest Enemy
Credits • -Wiki answers • http://nordbotten.ifi.uib.no/VirtualMuseum/Prototypes/Bengt/whale13.htm • http://www.isptr-pard.org/dolphin.htmlutaries. • http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/62.shtml • http://www.amersol.edu.pe/ms/7th/7block/jungle_research/new_cards/14/report14hm. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_there_any_laws_to_save_the_endangered_pink_dolphinhtml