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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Fact of the Day for October 6, 1999
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Where do pink dolphins live?
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In the Amazon River and its tributaries there are dolphins that are
bright pink. There are also pink dolphins in Hong Kong Harbor, and
off the coasts of southeast Asia.
The Amazon pink dolphins are completely freshwater animals, never
venturing into the sea. They are adapted to the Amazon forest
environment. When the floods come, they can swim right into the
flooded forest, nimbly navigating between the drowned treetrunks.
Sometimes, when the waters recede, they become stranded.
The pink dolphins in Hong Kong Harbor are a small group of about 250
animals that form a subspecies of the chinese white dolphin. Like
the Amazon dolphins, the Hong Kong dolphins are endangered by human
activities, especially pollution.
More about pink dolphins, river dolphins, and white dolphins:
http://www.southwest.com.au/~kirbyhs/pinkdolphins.html
More Cool Facts about dolphins:
http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/03/28.html
http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/05/13.html
http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1997/05/27.html
A Cool Fact about a dolphin robot:
http://www.cool-fact.com/archive/1999/04/08.html
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