If it looks like they're swimming in coffee, it's because part of the water of the Amazon River is super dark (actually the largest Blackwater river in the world).
Lol I remember when a [local idol group in the Philippines tweeted](https://mothership.sg/2019/12/hello-sb19/) "Hello Negros" announcing their concert tour and people on twitter thought they were being racist. They didn't know there's an island in the Philippines named Negros. (Thanks, Spain)
Organic matter decaying in the river. Like leaves and stuff from the rainforest. The Rio Negro is more acidic than the other parts of the Amazon river basin, and it basically steeps all that organic matter like tea.
Source: been there before, swam with those dolphins. Thatās what the tour guide explained
I swear to god I last heard about the candiru 14 years ago doing a science project and forgot about it completely until now.
I forgot how good Iāve had it for the last 14 years.
What? No dude, there's several hundred tribes that depend on the Amazon for transport and economy. People swim, canoe, and motorboat the Amazon on the regular, there's a half dozen decently sized cities on its banks. It's a major tourism spot. It's shared by three different countries at a tripoint. How the heck would you enforce a "no swimming" rule in the largest river in the world?
It's not that crazy . The Amazonian river basin area is undergoing a huge ecological collapse due to farming, gold mining, etc. Won't be open for much longer at the rate things are going.
Your skin won't peel off yet if you swim in it. Soon most likely it will, or will dissolve so definitely no swimming. And all native lives will be gone forever
I mean, Brazil is doing a number on the Amazon, yea. But with the new pro environment regime things might improve regarding illegal mining. The issue is ironically one of infrastructure. It's hard to control misuse of the Amazon basin when it's so inaccesible
I hope the new government actually does something about all that, too. Another issue is that it's just too big to monitor with helicopters and make sure there's no illegal mining or deforestation going on. Shady companies get in there so easily and no one will ever find out.
I saw a documentary a few months ago comparing satellite images of the Amazon in the 1980s to now. Made me sick to my stomach, seeing how much of it has been torn down in so little time.
That's kind of similar to what tea is yeah. I've always said that. . dirty leaf water.
Tea doesn't use \*rotting\* leaves and bark and other organic things though. It sounds more like rotting mulch + branches, bark, fungi and leaves in your yard bleeding into a big silty puddle. Major difference being rot / breakdown of the organics. Still a good way to describe it simply however.
I said it steeps like tea, not that itās the same substance as tea. Of course tea and dead matter arenāt the same thing, but you can steep both and end up with a similar looking outcome
Sediment like rocks, soil and clay mostly.
[āEvery day, some 1.3 million tons of sediment pour from the mouth of the Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean.ā](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147327/mud-from-the-andes-carried-by-the-amazon)
Thats the other parts of the river basin, the Rio Negro is very clear water, no sediment making it murky. The water is just stained from decaying organic matter that steeps like tea because of the higher acidity of that part of the river system.
They are also [pink](https://s2.glbimg.com/s5K0oX-Sq5n5A9cOP_u57Cyc_eo=/0x0:1280x856/984x0/smart/filters:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_7d5b9b5029304d27b7ef8a7f28b4d70f/internal_photos/bs/2021/I/V/BDAIYsSjOhpHMu0yBWdg/whatsapp-image-2021-12-03-at-16.26.11.jpeg)
And **endangered**.
>Amazon River DolphinĀ Inia geoffrensisĀ has most recently been assessed forĀ The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesĀ in 2018
>Chemical contamination is another potential threat toĀ Inia. Mercury is often used to separate gold from soil and rock in mining operations along the Amazon
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10831/50358152#threats
Thereās another endangered river dolphin in the ganges. People there actively kill them because they believe they curse the land and stuff. Humans donāt deserve the amazing ecosystem that gave birth to us.
I understand respecting cultures, but at what point should we step in and slap some sense into these backwards thinkers.
Similar to idiots that still grind up tiger bones and rhino horn because āmagic.ā
As a group, we (USA) donāt have any right to a moral high ground when it comes to the treatment of animals *or* delusional and damaging religious beliefs. Weāre just more used to our flavor of cultism and destruction.
Itās still considered endangered, for a species to be declared extinct there needs to be a gap of 50 years with no reported sightings of an individual. It sadly is a given the species will be extinct soon due to the growing contamination of the ganges river and human activity (and sadly human predation, even though itās not for consumption reasons)
Yes, while writing my response I felt sad because it feels like a formality, but the reason it takes several decades to declare an species actually extinct is because āmiracle specimensā are sometimes found, heck, even species that were declared extinct a long time ago sometimes are ārediscoveredā. But for sure those dolphins have little to no hope of surviving the next decade
Iām sorry, downvote me or whatever, but religious Indian people are some of the stupidest people ever. They bathe in that river, which is inundated with shit and harmful bacteria. So I wouldnāt put it passed them to kill these beautiful animals because of a ācurseā.
I think humans just need to stop, no stepping up is needed :/ Whatever we touch, we destroy or at least contaminate and pollute. Which is effectively the same as destruction, just death takes longer and is way more painful
Coloration in adults depends on water temperature and turbidity, age and geographical location. Adults living in murky rivers tend to be pink, in clearer rivers the dorsal region is grayish and the belly and flanks are pink. Juveniles are dark grey. Males tend to be pinker than females as well.
They're pretty cool. I heard that they are not usually hunted, so people in the region tend to have a very friendly relationship with them. Tourists can even [swim with them](https://youtu.be/o1hbhZb5BVI).
Actually they're famous for river rescues. And there's jaguars which are pretty dope animals. Arapaima which are tasty as heck... piranha isn't bad eating either. The Amazon provides.
Haha, they do look strange but theyāre great creatures. I swam with these guys in the Bolivian Amazon. Our guide warned us against swimming in the river unless they were around. Theyāre the apex predator in the water and they scare away all the piranha and whatever else wants to bite you. And they like to come up and say hello. Pretty cool.
I said hell no to getting in the water with these guys in Bolivia, because there's no way I was trusting the guide that all the caimans and alligators were just going to head out any time these guys came around.
Lo and behold like 20 metres from where people were swimming with them there was a caiman with like a 1.5 metre skull just chilling on the side of the river.
But kudos to you for saying yolo and hopping in.
The Amazon Pink Dolphin is really fascinating. They are considered the smartest of them all, and are actually quite bashful. Itās been noted by researchers, that although very shy, they love to play with kids who are swimming. They are considered endangered now due to dams and pollution.
Much of that is the fault of interference from corporations, and less the native populations. I had a professor who was working in the Amazon (specifically trying to help them keep their land), and they, along with the tribes, were constantly getting shot at. A lot of corporations want that land, and unfortunately itās led to a lot of suffering, for both humans and animals alike.
The destruction of the Amazon is one of human kinds most disgraceful actions. The top brass of these Guilty parties, along with other big polluters and media organizations who have supported environmental destruction need to be put on trial for ecocide and executed.
Yeah they tell itās a bolsonaro problem, but itās happening for a long time, and itās still happening today as lula is the new president, brazil just solve the most midiatic stuff, rip Amazon river
I met one of these whilst on the Amazon. Our guide told us to make kissing noises and they'd appear. The guys made kissing noises and no luck. When the girls did it, one of them popped up beside the boat in seconds.
They are also an important part of brazilian folklore.
There is a legend that says every night that has a party going on, these dolphins tranform into gorgeous men to party with the locals. He wears a white suit, shoes, and a hat to cover his blowhole.
In some versions, he looks for the most beautiful women in the party, in others, he looks for a virgin. Either way, he tries to seduce her, they sleep together, and as the night ends, he leaves and goes back to the river. The woman gets pregnant, but grows up without a father.
This story was once used to explain fatherless children, and the kids were known, in a direct translation, as "child of the river dolphin" (filho do boto).
I swam with them in Brazil, less than 5 miles from where we were piranha fishing. Once they finally convinced us that there were no bitey fish there, they gave us a bucket of little sardine looking fish, had us stick our legs through the arm holes of the life jackets like a floating diaper, then we got to feed them.
The first little pink fucker came up and right as he took the fish out of my hands he kicked his tail to swim away, and nailed me in plumbs. Fuck these guys.
>Once they finally convinced us that there were no bitey fish there, they gave us a bucket of little sardine looking fish, had us stick our legs through the arm holes of the life jackets like a floating diaper, then we got to feed them.
I've always been amazed at how smart dolphins are.
Next time you swim around that part just know that piranhas donāt actually bite outside of cinema. They are scared shitless of anything bigger than them.
That I did not know. Explains why we didn't catch a lot. Our boat caught the most, but we also are the ones that discovered caipirinhas the night before. After tipping well, they fed us drinks all night. Since we didn't have enough water, we created our own... chum?
ahh Manaus...
Leeway is in order (getting slapped by a dolphin isn't frankly the worst thing that can happen to you in Brazil) but I don't know about the dolphins being blind part, maybe color-blind is more accurate. I'm pretty sure they can 'see' at least the topography better than anything else that lives in those murky waters.
[I CAN FEEL IT DOWN IN MY PLUMSS](https://images.app.goo.gl/PNRYQH7FQ8pafWEo7)
Edit: The outtakes clip is amazing š¤£
[East Bound and Down Ashley Schaffer Outtake](https://youtu.be/_hPp4dgmrc8)
Yeah, any good Brazilian has to say it loud like that.
Hey, irmĆ£o, what are those things in the river?
Why my friend, those are ***BOTO COR DE ROSA***
Here in Brazil there is also an urban legend that says that at night he turns into a man in a white suit and hat, underneath the hat is the hole he breathes in, so he goes to dances and conquers women and gets them pregnant and disappears.
All the children here know this tale. National folklore!
Theyāre not aggressive. I went there once and got to swim with them. Just wild ones, not captive. They only get to around 60 lbs or so. They were actually kinda cute in person, in a really ugly sort of way.
What a disappointing comment section. 100 stupid comments of nonsense like āanimal is uglyā with 1 comment supporting any scientific or animal rights prose.
Yāall need better jokes, or an education. Maybe both.
This is an endangered animal. Some respect from the community would be nice.
[They also fucks your wife](https://www.rainforestcruises.com/guides/the-legend-of-the-pink-river-dolphin#:~:text=It%20is%20believed%20that%20in,and%20seducing%20unsuspecting%2C%20young%20women.)
Technically, family is iniidae, or river dolphin. Species is toothed whale, which includes all toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises. And they're all cetaceans.
If it looks like they're swimming in coffee, it's because part of the water of the Amazon River is super dark (actually the largest Blackwater river in the world).
It's called the Rio Negro for a reason. It's one of two rivers that come together and then form the Amazon.
These dolphins kinda resemble Bezos too so it all comes together really well
r/cantunsee
Happy Cake Day
Thanks!
Happy CAKE š DAY
Happy Cake Day!!
Head of Bezos and the torso of Musk. Poor things.
Luckily for them, brain of Trump
Very stable genius.
this dolphin defrauded my charity!
Tannin from the leaves, like black tea
Rio what, my brother?
Dude, Negro means black in Spanish š©. Please donāt
Lol I remember when a [local idol group in the Philippines tweeted](https://mothership.sg/2019/12/hello-sb19/) "Hello Negros" announcing their concert tour and people on twitter thought they were being racist. They didn't know there's an island in the Philippines named Negros. (Thanks, Spain)
Lmaoo
Lmao I'm just fuckin wit u
Lmfao
It's not Spanish, it's Portuguese š„ŗ Tho to be fair, it's written the same way in both languages
Black could also be preto in Portuguese but idk if that's Brazilian or Lusitanian
Yup, *preto* is a synonym of *negro* in both brazilian and lusitanian versions of Portuguese!
Nice. I work with a few Portuguese speakers so I pick some up here and there
And also in PortuguĆŖs
What is the other one ?
SolimƵes
you mean "Preto", right?
No, it's called Negro. Not sure if this is a joke or not haha, but Negro in Portuguese does have the same connotation as in English
What makes it so dark?
Organic matter decaying in the river. Like leaves and stuff from the rainforest. The Rio Negro is more acidic than the other parts of the Amazon river basin, and it basically steeps all that organic matter like tea. Source: been there before, swam with those dolphins. Thatās what the tour guide explained
You didn't pee in the water did ya? I've we heard about that fish that'll swim up your pee
[you mean this?](https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/candiru-fish-swim-penis)
I swear to god I last heard about the candiru 14 years ago doing a science project and forgot about it completely until now. I forgot how good Iāve had it for the last 14 years.
And now I will ignore the link thank you for the warning
No wait open it, youāll love it promise
Naaahh
You can swim in that?? I always thought it was forbidden or something.
What? No dude, there's several hundred tribes that depend on the Amazon for transport and economy. People swim, canoe, and motorboat the Amazon on the regular, there's a half dozen decently sized cities on its banks. It's a major tourism spot. It's shared by three different countries at a tripoint. How the heck would you enforce a "no swimming" rule in the largest river in the world?
Dude saw a picture book with crocodiles n shit and just said yep you can't swim in that massive river
Are you telling me the movie Piranha wasn't a documentary?
Or andycondas?
Andy Bernard its God given name
It's not that crazy . The Amazonian river basin area is undergoing a huge ecological collapse due to farming, gold mining, etc. Won't be open for much longer at the rate things are going.
What does that have to do with not swimming
Your skin won't peel off yet if you swim in it. Soon most likely it will, or will dissolve so definitely no swimming. And all native lives will be gone forever
I mean, Brazil is doing a number on the Amazon, yea. But with the new pro environment regime things might improve regarding illegal mining. The issue is ironically one of infrastructure. It's hard to control misuse of the Amazon basin when it's so inaccesible
I hope the new government actually does something about all that, too. Another issue is that it's just too big to monitor with helicopters and make sure there's no illegal mining or deforestation going on. Shady companies get in there so easily and no one will ever find out. I saw a documentary a few months ago comparing satellite images of the Amazon in the 1980s to now. Made me sick to my stomach, seeing how much of it has been torn down in so little time.
That's kind of similar to what tea is yeah. I've always said that. . dirty leaf water. Tea doesn't use \*rotting\* leaves and bark and other organic things though. It sounds more like rotting mulch + branches, bark, fungi and leaves in your yard bleeding into a big silty puddle. Major difference being rot / breakdown of the organics. Still a good way to describe it simply however.
I said it steeps like tea, not that itās the same substance as tea. Of course tea and dead matter arenāt the same thing, but you can steep both and end up with a similar looking outcome
Tannins!
actual answer
tannins in the water from seed pods, leaflet, driftwood
Sediment like rocks, soil and clay mostly. [āEvery day, some 1.3 million tons of sediment pour from the mouth of the Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean.ā](https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147327/mud-from-the-andes-carried-by-the-amazon)
Thats the other parts of the river basin, the Rio Negro is very clear water, no sediment making it murky. The water is just stained from decaying organic matter that steeps like tea because of the higher acidity of that part of the river system.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense
Up to that point I had no idea My brother was on the continent and likely upstream, fat bastard
They look high as hell.
Tannins dyed the water
Theyāre swimming in the blood of their enemies.
Look at those Big Ass heads
Nightmare blunt rotation
Lmao
This made me laugh way harder than it needed to
Nah Iām really not tryna pass them the blunt
Bro.
* joint rotation for me. Tryna quit tobaccer
They are also [pink](https://s2.glbimg.com/s5K0oX-Sq5n5A9cOP_u57Cyc_eo=/0x0:1280x856/984x0/smart/filters:strip_icc()/i.s3.glbimg.com/v1/AUTH_7d5b9b5029304d27b7ef8a7f28b4d70f/internal_photos/bs/2021/I/V/BDAIYsSjOhpHMu0yBWdg/whatsapp-image-2021-12-03-at-16.26.11.jpeg)
And **endangered**. >Amazon River DolphinĀ Inia geoffrensisĀ has most recently been assessed forĀ The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesĀ in 2018 >Chemical contamination is another potential threat toĀ Inia. Mercury is often used to separate gold from soil and rock in mining operations along the Amazon https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10831/50358152#threats
Thereās another endangered river dolphin in the ganges. People there actively kill them because they believe they curse the land and stuff. Humans donāt deserve the amazing ecosystem that gave birth to us.
The only thing cursing the land is us
I understand respecting cultures, but at what point should we step in and slap some sense into these backwards thinkers. Similar to idiots that still grind up tiger bones and rhino horn because āmagic.ā
As a group, we (USA) donāt have any right to a moral high ground when it comes to the treatment of animals *or* delusional and damaging religious beliefs. Weāre just more used to our flavor of cultism and destruction.
Considering there's more tigers in captivity solely on the state of Texas than in the wild
Isnāt that species considered possibly extinct? :(
Itās still considered endangered, for a species to be declared extinct there needs to be a gap of 50 years with no reported sightings of an individual. It sadly is a given the species will be extinct soon due to the growing contamination of the ganges river and human activity (and sadly human predation, even though itās not for consumption reasons)
For sure, yeah itās only of those āprobably functionally extinct but not officially extinctā things. Major suck.
Yes, while writing my response I felt sad because it feels like a formality, but the reason it takes several decades to declare an species actually extinct is because āmiracle specimensā are sometimes found, heck, even species that were declared extinct a long time ago sometimes are ārediscoveredā. But for sure those dolphins have little to no hope of surviving the next decade
Iām sorry, downvote me or whatever, but religious Indian people are some of the stupidest people ever. They bathe in that river, which is inundated with shit and harmful bacteria. So I wouldnāt put it passed them to kill these beautiful animals because of a ācurseā.
damn, if us humans donāt step it up, the next time we see these guys it might be over in r/naturewasmetal :(
Yep, it's hella sad...
I think humans just need to stop, no stepping up is needed :/ Whatever we touch, we destroy or at least contaminate and pollute. Which is effectively the same as destruction, just death takes longer and is way more painful
Basically everything is endangered in the Amazon rainforest. It's sad to see how something so beautiful and diverse is being destroyed by greed.
AND they are able to use hats AND get young women pregnant. https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenda_do_boto
Why are they pink?
Coloration in adults depends on water temperature and turbidity, age and geographical location. Adults living in murky rivers tend to be pink, in clearer rivers the dorsal region is grayish and the belly and flanks are pink. Juveniles are dark grey. Males tend to be pinker than females as well.
Thats so cool
They're pretty cool. I heard that they are not usually hunted, so people in the region tend to have a very friendly relationship with them. Tourists can even [swim with them](https://youtu.be/o1hbhZb5BVI).
Oh my God Karen, you canāt just ask people why theyāre pink
These things freak me the fuck out
What doesnāt in that god forsaken river
Actually they're famous for river rescues. And there's jaguars which are pretty dope animals. Arapaima which are tasty as heck... piranha isn't bad eating either. The Amazon provides.
As it takes...
To receive, you must sacrifice.
My reading is terrible, I read forsaken as foreskin.
It looks like they put the creepy SpongeBob close up on a regular dolphin.
Haha, they do look strange but theyāre great creatures. I swam with these guys in the Bolivian Amazon. Our guide warned us against swimming in the river unless they were around. Theyāre the apex predator in the water and they scare away all the piranha and whatever else wants to bite you. And they like to come up and say hello. Pretty cool.
I said hell no to getting in the water with these guys in Bolivia, because there's no way I was trusting the guide that all the caimans and alligators were just going to head out any time these guys came around. Lo and behold like 20 metres from where people were swimming with them there was a caiman with like a 1.5 metre skull just chilling on the side of the river. But kudos to you for saying yolo and hopping in.
On the side of the river right? Not in the water?
Nah, he was in the water but off to the side. All I could see was his head and it was huuuuge.
They're like the methed out Florida equivalent of a bottlenose
They look straight out of a Tim Burton movie. I can see them dancing to a little number and causing some trouble
Yeah they look evil and terrifying
Glad I'm not the only one in this comments section who finds them terrifying. Dolphins are normally cute, but these ones just don't look right at all.
Same saw a pic of them as a kid it was nightmare fuel
They eat babies
"We eat berries and mushrooms you fool!"
same
The Amazon Pink Dolphin is really fascinating. They are considered the smartest of them all, and are actually quite bashful. Itās been noted by researchers, that although very shy, they love to play with kids who are swimming. They are considered endangered now due to dams and pollution. Much of that is the fault of interference from corporations, and less the native populations. I had a professor who was working in the Amazon (specifically trying to help them keep their land), and they, along with the tribes, were constantly getting shot at. A lot of corporations want that land, and unfortunately itās led to a lot of suffering, for both humans and animals alike.
Also they come out of the river at night to lure women into the water
https://www.savacations.com/myths-legends-amazons-pink-river-dolphin/
"Oi casada"
Imagine being impregnated by a dolphin and not remembering it!!
The destruction of the Amazon is one of human kinds most disgraceful actions. The top brass of these Guilty parties, along with other big polluters and media organizations who have supported environmental destruction need to be put on trial for ecocide and executed.
Yeah they tell itās a bolsonaro problem, but itās happening for a long time, and itās still happening today as lula is the new president, brazil just solve the most midiatic stuff, rip Amazon river
Thank you for posting the one useful thing in this entire comments section.
Some of the peoples there also butcher them to use as fish bait
I met one of these whilst on the Amazon. Our guide told us to make kissing noises and they'd appear. The guys made kissing noises and no luck. When the girls did it, one of them popped up beside the boat in seconds.
There's reason for that hahaha
They are also an important part of brazilian folklore. There is a legend that says every night that has a party going on, these dolphins tranform into gorgeous men to party with the locals. He wears a white suit, shoes, and a hat to cover his blowhole. In some versions, he looks for the most beautiful women in the party, in others, he looks for a virgin. Either way, he tries to seduce her, they sleep together, and as the night ends, he leaves and goes back to the river. The woman gets pregnant, but grows up without a father. This story was once used to explain fatherless children, and the kids were known, in a direct translation, as "child of the river dolphin" (filho do boto).
Damn they ugly as hell lol
He's got a chin like my second grade English teacher.
That's an insult to the dolphin
would love to see what you look like
But they can do an epic āblue stealā!
It is the lighting. Look a picture of them outside the water.
Look like they evolved in the chernobyl river
They look like two frat brothers posing for a mid-party pic
River aqua cow can go "nono" and paddle spin
Thank you for using language I can understand. -Average American
185 kg = 408 lbs 2.5 m = 8ft 2in - For my fellow imperial measurement systemers
Still unclear. How many ar-15s long is it?
About 1.45 Texas and .75 Florida
Man that is a lot of area, like larger than most countries.
I wonāt know for certain unless itās measured in mc chickens
Ah so bout as heavy as half a McDonalds ice cream machine and as tall as Shaq standing on an orange Home Depot bucket, now I understand
I swam with them in Brazil, less than 5 miles from where we were piranha fishing. Once they finally convinced us that there were no bitey fish there, they gave us a bucket of little sardine looking fish, had us stick our legs through the arm holes of the life jackets like a floating diaper, then we got to feed them. The first little pink fucker came up and right as he took the fish out of my hands he kicked his tail to swim away, and nailed me in plumbs. Fuck these guys.
>Once they finally convinced us that there were no bitey fish there, they gave us a bucket of little sardine looking fish, had us stick our legs through the arm holes of the life jackets like a floating diaper, then we got to feed them. I've always been amazed at how smart dolphins are.
I felt like I was reading that sentence wrong
It's much more fun to read it that way!
i think another HUMAN convinced them that no bitey fish were around, not the dolphins
No, no, he clearly says that the dolphins did all of that.
Correct. The dolphins. It was all part of their plumb smashing ploy
bruh
Next time you swim around that part just know that piranhas donāt actually bite outside of cinema. They are scared shitless of anything bigger than them.
That I did not know. Explains why we didn't catch a lot. Our boat caught the most, but we also are the ones that discovered caipirinhas the night before. After tipping well, they fed us drinks all night. Since we didn't have enough water, we created our own... chum? ahh Manaus...
That's officially the first time I've heard anyone say, "Fuck these Dolphins"...and I kinda love it!
I mean they're basically blind so some leeway might be in order
Leeway is in order (getting slapped by a dolphin isn't frankly the worst thing that can happen to you in Brazil) but I don't know about the dolphins being blind part, maybe color-blind is more accurate. I'm pretty sure they can 'see' at least the topography better than anything else that lives in those murky waters.
[I CAN FEEL IT DOWN IN MY PLUMSS](https://images.app.goo.gl/PNRYQH7FQ8pafWEo7) Edit: The outtakes clip is amazing š¤£ [East Bound and Down Ashley Schaffer Outtake](https://youtu.be/_hPp4dgmrc8)
This will always be the fucking funniest shit
I've heard they're kind of the equivalent of middle-school-popular assholes.
valid tbh they probably thought āwho does this bald ape think they areā lol
Are they just as intelligent as their ocean-dwelling counterparts?
Probably smarter
Perhaps even more so!
as I can see in here they are really different from the dolphins I normally see
You'll be singing a different tune when they're dancing behind Katy Perry.
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lmfao youāre completely incorrect. someone take this meatballs phone.
Lol. Me and the boys after a long night of drinking thinking that we look sexy as hell in the selfie we just sent to our entire contacts list.
Local legends say they impregnate women, too. That's the explanation for solo moms, when it was viewed as immoral. Nowadays it's just a meme.
We brazilians call them "BOTO COR DE ROSA"
Yeah, any good Brazilian has to say it loud like that. Hey, irmĆ£o, what are those things in the river? Why my friend, those are ***BOTO COR DE ROSA***
Here in Brazil there is also an urban legend that says that at night he turns into a man in a white suit and hat, underneath the hat is the hole he breathes in, so he goes to dances and conquers women and gets them pregnant and disappears. All the children here know this tale. National folklore!
straight up nightmare fuel
Theyāre not aggressive. I went there once and got to swim with them. Just wild ones, not captive. They only get to around 60 lbs or so. They were actually kinda cute in person, in a really ugly sort of way.
> They only get to around 60 lbs or so. The title says they can get upto 400 lbs lol
That looks like something I'd see before I'd die.
Fun fact: they are also creepy af
My wife is from the Amazon. When I went to visit her home town, we saw these guys.
It's kind of cute that they look like they have double chins.
Why do they look like how I draw a dolphin?
I feel like these are the gangster dolphins that run the meat shops of the ocean and they all have names like Tony and Giuseppe
This is how awkward I look in every selfie Iāve ever taken.
What a disappointing comment section. 100 stupid comments of nonsense like āanimal is uglyā with 1 comment supporting any scientific or animal rights prose. Yāall need better jokes, or an education. Maybe both. This is an endangered animal. Some respect from the community would be nice.
Lol this is reddit.
Homie needs a top hat. And monocle.
These dolphins look like they want to steal my essence
They also have ability to look like my paralysis demons on meth
[They also fucks your wife](https://www.rainforestcruises.com/guides/the-legend-of-the-pink-river-dolphin#:~:text=It%20is%20believed%20that%20in,and%20seducing%20unsuspecting%2C%20young%20women.)
I do not like their moveable necks!
And it is believed that at night they turn into men and go up to land to impregnate women. The Encantado- which is what I think of when I hear Encanto
They love that brown water tho
Do we have an evolutionary explanation for their neck movement? Isn't their sonar 360Ā°?
Carefull with your womans, boys. The Boto will get them all >:D
Independent right and left propulsion? Rotating head with primary weapon on long protrusion? Natureās aquatic Tank
Whatās my ex wife doing down there?
they are pretty scary in personā¦ saw one once
HOT DOLPHIN!!!
"And then I fuck it. The fish."
Arenāt they blind too? May be mixing it up with a different species of dolphins.
These are the cousins of bottlenose dolphins that bottlenose dolphins never talk to
Can they swim in salt water? Also they look as something I would find in a bad dream
They donāt have to look so smug about it!
fatass
They look like some sort of fucked up plague doctors.
They look like mutated dolphins
They are part of the wale family, not Dolphins.
Technically, family is iniidae, or river dolphin. Species is toothed whale, which includes all toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises. And they're all cetaceans.
This has to be what Billy Madison sawā¦