{"id":2656,"date":"2023-02-22T02:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:59:18","slug":"what-is-pink-dolphin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-pink-dolphin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Pink Dolphin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Pink Dolphin:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>Amazon River dolphin<\/strong> which is also known as the pink river dolphin or boto and lives only in <strong>freshwater<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is found throughout much of the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The river dolphin is <strong>smaller than other types of saltwater dolphins<\/strong>, and the species has excellent hearing.<\/li>\n<li>Pink dolphins must live in warm, shallow water areas because they have very little blubber.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike ocean-dwelling dolphins, pink dolphins <strong>have a hump instead<\/strong> of a dorsal fin.<\/li>\n<li>Generally, these dolphins become <strong>more pink as they age<\/strong>, which has led to the species becoming known as the \u2018pink dolphin.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>These animal species <strong>use echolocation<\/strong> which lets the animal determine the size and shape of any surrounding item or object.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IUCN: Endangered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the IUCN Red List?<\/h3>\n<p>The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the most authoritative, objective and comprehensive list of animals, plants and fungi that have been assessed for their risk of extinction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/two-endangered-pink-dolphins-rescued-from-shallow-colombia-river\/article66535461.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Two endangered pink dolphins rescued from shallow Colombia river<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Dolphin is the Amazon River dolphin which is also known as boto and lives only in freshwater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}