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- noun Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater
dolphin endemic to theAmazon river system
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The creature was actually a kind of dolphin called a boto, a very sociable creature that lurks in the shallows close to the beach at night and apparently likes nothing better than to swim between people’s legs.
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The creature was actually a kind of dolphin called a boto, a very sociable creature that lurks in the shallows close to the beach at night and apparently likes nothing better than to swim between people’s legs.
Ten reasons why I love Brazil (and no mention of football!*) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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The creature was actually a kind of dolphin called a boto, a very sociable creature that lurks in the shallows close to the beach at night and apparently likes nothing better than to swim between people’s legs.
Ten reasons why I love Brazil (and no mention of football!*) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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Often known as pink dolphins or "boto," Amazon river dolphins face the same risks as the other two South American species, including the habitat fragmentation that comes with dam building along the Amazon and its tributaries.
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Often known as pink dolphins or "boto," Amazon river dolphins face the same risks as the other two South American species, including the habitat fragmentation that comes with dam building along the Amazon and its tributaries.
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In Brazil, the boto dolphin is said to take human form.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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In Brazil, the boto dolphin is said to take human form.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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In Brazil, the boto dolphin is said to take human form.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The boto story is my way of exorcising the feeling of ridicule I get whenever any members of the 1986 cast get together.
Ten reasons why I love Brazil (and no mention of football!*) « Ken Wilson's Blog 2010
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Two freshwater mammals are endemic to the region: the Amazon manatee (VU) and the boto or pink dolphin Inia geoffrensis (VU) forage over the flooded land.
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André and his colleagues wanted to explore the activity of two species, the boto (Inia geoffrensis) — also known as the pink river dolphin — and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) across the floodplains of the Mamirauá reserve in northern Brazil.
AI helps scientists to eavesdrop on endangered pink dolphins Lilly Tozer 2023
hernesheir commented on the word boto
I possess a sea heart (large drift seed of the legume Entada gigas) picked up in the 1990's on Grand Cayman Island, that has 2-3 separate bite marks consistent with the tooth rows of the boto. This I deduced by comparing dentitions of dolphin skulls housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The seed evidently was carried north from a river/estuary in the Gulf Stream in South America and deposited on the beach to be found by a colleague of mine.
February 20, 2010