There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia genus), also known as the pink river dolphin, and the two groups include several species and subspecies.

Then we realized it was not related to the Amazon River pink dolphin. We [had] found an animal, a giant, whose closest living relative is 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) away in south-east Asia.” ...

An Amazon river dolphin takes a catfish from a fisher’s net. The dolphins have learnt to associate the sounds of fishing boats and nets with an easy meal. Some, however, get entangled and drown. Many ...

Thomas Peschak (Germany/South Africa) documents the relationship between endangered Amazon river dolphins – also known as botos, or pink river dolphins – and the people who share their watery home.