YouTube:	https://youtube.com/watch?v=pcCFSZltHSc
Previous:	Don’t Grab The Venomous Frogs
Next:	(None)

Categories

Statistics

View count:	470
Likes:	83
Comments:	10
Duration:	12:52
Uploaded:	2025-04-07
Last sync:	2025-04-07 14:15

Check out Manta Sleep here https://tinyurl.com/54xsxtt4 and make sure to use bizarrebeasts for 10% off your order! And then, take a nap!



Why are there dolphins in rivers, and why do they look... like that? There are a handful of very similar-looking, but somehow unrelated river dolphins around the world. Where did they all come from, and what is it about living in rivers that causes dolphins to look so specific?



Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription

This month's pin is designed by Rachel Calderon Navarro. You can find out more about her and her work here: https://rachelcalderonnavarro.com/



You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com



Follow us on socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social

#BizarreBeasts #dolphin

-----

Sources:

https://www.riverdolphins.org/river-dolphins-worldwide/amazon-river-dolphin

https://www.riverdolphins.org/river-dolphins-worldwide/tucuxi/

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/indus-river-dolphin

https://www.riverdolphins.org/river-dolphins-worldwide/ganges-river-dolphin/

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/species-guide/baiji/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC17202/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012804327100220X

https://animalia.bio/bolivian-river-dolphin

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Inia_geoffrensis/

https://marinemammalscience.org/science-and-publications/list-marine-mammal-species-subspecies/

https://www.scribd.com/document/751826619/i2

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2391192/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123735539000614

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2006.00003.x

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5701545/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7511723/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00526.x

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.120501

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=2rkHQpToi9sC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2000.1385

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/miocene

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1771

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/fossil-river-dolphin-lived-out-at-sea

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pontoporia_blainvillei/

https://us.whales.org/whales-dolphins/species-guide/franciscana/

https://www.dolphins-world.com/tucuxi-sotalia-fluviatilis/

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sotalia_fluviatilis/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-005-0078-2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03722-x

https://animalia.bio/yangtze-finless-porpoise?environment=1507

https://www.riverdolphins.org/best-practices/addressing-threats/threat-overview-and-ranking/

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2016.2348

------

Images:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14YdFeGf3h5RSWNZ6S_30Og2RUwVuHZJyNnkdl04ZlQ8/edit?usp=sharing