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Life Amazon river dolphins may send messages with aerial streams of urine. Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream ...
The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River.
Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how ...
After around 219 hours of observations, they can confirm that male Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis), also known as botos, often roll onto their backs and urinate over three feet into the ...
Aerial urination by the Amazon dolphin (Claryana Araújo-Wang) The study documents 36 instances of “aerial urination” by boto between 2014 and 2018 and records the sequence, duration and ...
A new study observed Amazon river dolphins for 218.9 hours and saw males spurt urine into the air 36 times—proof that the behavior is more common than we thought. ANIMALS Scientists have questions.
Newly-resurfaced video captured an Amazon river dolphin relieving into the air, a rare behavior researchers believe helps the mammals communicate. $15M reward announced for alleged Chinese ...
An aerial view shows the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season in Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.
A video of an Amazon river dolphin urinating in the air has caught the internet's attention. Originally filmed in 2016, the footage has resurfaced online, sparking widespread reactions and ...
MANAUS, Brazil — President Joe Biden stopped Sunday in this city in the heart of the rainforest, marking the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the Amazon, as he sought to emphasize ...
Footage of President Joe Biden 'wandering off' into the Amazon rainforest has gone viral. On Sunday, Biden became the first sitting president to visit the Amazon.
Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows. Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how ...