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River Dolphins Summary
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River dolphins are cetaceans, which means that they related to whales and porpoises. These mammals live only in rivers and waterways of Asia and South America. There are five species of river dolphins belonging to three different families. In Asia...
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River dolphins are four living species of dolphin which reside in freshwater rivers and estuaries. They are classed in the Platanistoidea superfamily of cetaceans. Three species live in fresh water rivers. The fourth species, the La Plata Dolphin,...


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The Virginian Pilot
Young Dolphin Living In Contaminated River.(local)
03/22/2000: 690 words, approx. 2 pages
It seems almost too bizarre, the stuff of black comedy - a bottlenose dolphin living near a power plant in the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, one of the most contaminated waterways on the East Coast. Remarkably, though, scientists and river-watchers believe...
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The Christian Science Monitor
Saving freshwater dolphins means saving their rivers.(irrawaddy dolphin protection must include river habitats in Cambodia)
06/03/1999: 829 words, approx. 3 pages
The sound came first, a sharp blowing sound from somewhere in the muddy waters of the Mekong River. Then Phong Choeun got a brief, breath-catching glimpse of what he had been looking for - the blue-gray fin of an irrawaddy dolphin. Villagers had...
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AP News
Brazil fishermen caught killing dolphins
7/17/2007: 525 words, approx. 2 pages
A crew of Brazilian fishermen was captured on video killing 83 dolphins and joking about their illegal haul, Brazil's Ibama environmental protection agency said Tuesday.The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins, which suffocated because...
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AP News
Exterminator sentenced for stealing
4/20/2007: 296 words, approx. 1 pages
An exterminator was sentenced to prison Friday for stealing more than 2,000 exhibits including dolphin, leopard and bat skeletons in Australia's biggest museum theft.Dutch-born Hendrikus van Leeuwen, 50, was sentenced in the New South Wales state District Court to seven years imprisonment for stealing the...
 


 

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