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Pink river dolphins are dying from extreme heat in the Amazon - New Scientist

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Vet Jimena Valderrama and her colleague Jose Cantillo take samples from a dead river dolphin Luke Taylor

Vet Jimena Valderrama and her colleague Jose Cantillo take samples from a dead river dolphin
Luke Taylor

Even in the dry season, the Amazon river is so vast that I can’t make out the other side with my binoculars. We have travelled 2 hours downriver from the Colombian town of Puerto Nariño, searching for a dead dolphin reported by a fisherman. We only spot the carcass on the riverbank thanks to the vultures perched on top.

The pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) is symbolic of the biodiversity of the Amazon …

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