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=Amazon Pink River Dolphin= When you think of pink river dolphin you would think of a pink dolphin who can also live in a river. Although surprisingly you are wrong. Pink dolphins are not all that they seem.

The Inia Geoffrensis, pink dolphin, is apart of the Platonist family. Many people think that pink dolphins are just like their relatives, the sea dolphin, but they couldn’t be more wrong. Sea dolphins are more of a distant relative of the pink dolphin. Sea dolphins are classified in a whole entire different family.

The diet of a pink dolphin is carnivorous. Pink dolphins have long snouts that help them dig in the sand to find their prey. This classifies them as a bottom feeder. They eat crabs, catfish, small fish, and small turtles. Pink dolphins hunt in packs. They use a herding method to surround their prey.

Pink Dolphins can grow up to eight feet and weigh up to 355 pounds when full grown. Four ways you can tell the difference between river and sea dolphins is by their color, dorsal fin and flippers, teeth, and snouts. Pink dolphins can be pink, light grey, and even brown. When pink dolphins get happy or excited their color becomes darker as if they are blushing. The dorsal fin on a pink dolphin is curved, almost giving them a hunchback effect. While on a sea dolphin the dorsal fin is more pointed like a sharks. On a pink dolphin's flippers there are ridges that almost resemble fingers. Unlike a sea dolphin, pink dolphins have pointier teeth. Scientist believe this is because of the types of food they eat. For example, to crack threw a crab’s shell you need something sharp and pointy, like a pink dolphin’s teeth. Many river dolphins are extremely close to being blind. Although, a pink dolphin’s have a brain 40% larger than a humans causing them to have exceptional vision.

Due to pink dolphins being extremely friendly and curious, they are on of the most endangered species. The dolphins get close to the propellers of the boat which end up severely cutting them. Also with all of the noise on the Amazon River the dolphins are beginning to lose their hearing sense. This causes the dolphins to get lost and possibly die.

So next time someone says that pink dolphins are nothing other than a sea dolphin that’s pink, make sure you have them read this.

By: Elli Duensing