Since these mysterious creatures appear mainly at dusk and dawn, and their migration patterns are unknown, Sy Montgomery’s Amazon quest encompasses four separate journeys. With their flexible bodies-stretching to 8 feet long and weighing up to 400 pounds-and finely-tuned echolocation abilities, the pink dolphins perform their water ballet on hand-like, five fingered flippers, in a habitat no other dolphin could colonize. No one knows for certain what gives the dolphins their distinctive coloring: They may glow pink with exertion, or with age, or their color might change with the temperature of the water. With their melon-like foreheads and tubular snouts, pink dolphins look eerily familiar, like a person in a watery beginning.
To the local people of the Amazon, pink river dolphins are “boto,” shape-shifters that, in the guise of human desire, can claim your soul and take you to the Encante, an enchanted, underwater world.Īs tributaries braid into a single river, Journey of the Pink Dolphins weaves ancient myth and modern science into one woman’s search for this elusive creature. Scientists call them Inia geoffrensis, an ancient species of toothed whale whose origin dates back about 15 million years. But a rain that pours itself out for hours, sobbing and heaving-that, he explains, is a woman rain, ‘because a woman can cry all day.’” Sometimes a storm cracks the sky with lightning, crashes branches, rips animals from the trees, and then is gone. “Every day there is an extravagant, transforming rain.
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