The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin ... According to the research, aerial urination "starts with a boto slowly positioning itself ...

Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling upside down and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t bizarre enough, other males will usually seek out the urine as it ...

Amazon river dolphins swim in the tea-colored Ariau ... “It is possible that aerial urination is another behavior of the males’ social-sexual repertoire,” says Araújo-Wang.

Researchers observed an unusual behavior among male Amazon river dolphins, known as botos, where they flip onto their backs and urinate into the air, a phenomenon termed "aerial urination." ...

In the murky waters of the Amazon, pink river dolphins exhibit a surprising ... researchers recorded 36 instances of aerial urine jets. Males, lying on their backs, spray their urine to a height ...

it may be that the aerial urine alerts dolphins to check it out as it hits the water. Regardless of the actual reason, confirming the unique behavior among Amazon river dolphins now opens up the ...

Images of one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries, the Negro River, show just how dramatically water is dwindling. When The Associated Press photographed the Negro River and surrounding areas ...

A video of an Amazon river dolphin urinating in the air has ... published in 2025 in the journal Behavioural Processes, aerial urination "starts with a boto slowly positioning itself upside ...

Aerial urination by the Amazon dolphin (Claryana Araújo-Wang) The study documents 36 instances of “aerial urination” by boto between 2014 and 2018 and records the sequence, duration and ...

After the aerial tour, Biden visited the Museu da ... a research site in an area that many consider to be the starting point of the Amazon River and the gateway to the Amazon.