Rare Pink Dolphins Have Been Spotted As They Return To Their Original Home In Hong Kong Waters

Dolphins are intensely friendly, warm-blooded creatures that communicate with squeaks, whistles, and snaps, and they are smooth, graceful swimmers.

Maryjane

• Published in Animal Stories
• December 7, 2021

Dolphins are cetaceans who are little toothed and are unmistakable by their curved mouths, which give them a super durable smile. Dolphins live in the sea or in the brackish waters along shores, and most of them are marine.

There are a couple of a few species that live in freshwater rivers and streams. Dolphins are intensely friendly, warm-blooded creatures that communicate with squeaks, whistles, and snaps, and they are smooth, graceful swimmers.

They can arrive at speeds of over 18 miles per hour, and they are additionally fun-loving and frequently play in a boat's wake, jumping out of the water, which may be for the sake of entertainment. The wide life appears to claim its privileges with the entire world on hold because of the pandemic, as so many animals were seen in places they hadn't been spotted for a really long time.

This particular time, it is the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins returning to where they ought to be. With the traffic having lessened drastically during the pandemic, more of these dazzling animals have been increasingly spotted in the waters around Hong Kong.

As calculated by the World Wide Fund for Nature, around 2,500 of these one-of-a-kind dolphins live in the Pearl River Estuary, and both the white and pink dolphin species are the rarest on the planet, as the Indo-Pacific dolphins, or the Chinese white dolphins, and pink dolphins are an incredible sight to see because of their color.

Here is one of the pink river dolphins

Dr. Lindsay Porter, a senior examination researcher with the University of St. Andrews, told The Guardian that since 1993, she’s been studying these dolphins and she has seen nothing like this sensational change before. She added that dolphins are investing more time in socialization or splashing around on the surface level, and it was truly incredible to see them playing and living it up. 

This pink river dolphin is really cute

The pink river dolphins have an unmistakable dolphin smile, and their foreheads are round with long, slim beaks. The river dolphin has a long nose that can reach up to 23 inches, which is four times longer than the sea dolphin’s nose, and they can swim with extraordinary accuracy.

Other river dolphin species have dimorphism, which is where females are bigger than males, but the inverse is what you’ll see with regards to the Amazon river dolphins. Since river dolphins are amazingly flexible, they can maneuver around tree trunks, rocks, and other things.

They can also swim forward using one flipper while the other flipper oars in reverse. This swimming strategy allows them to make difficult maneuvers, and they also prefer to swim in an upside-down position.

Nonetheless, in spite of the various ongoing, the World Wide Fund says that the numbers of pink dolphins over the years have quickly decreased because of contamination, overfishing, and substantial marine traffic.

Have you ever seen a dolphin socializing or displaying before? Tell us what the experience was like in the comments section below!

Maryjane