oils made from boto genitals are sold as aphrodisiacs and perfumes.) “In the time I’ve been going to the Amazon, the role of the mythology has diminished enormously,” Tony Martin ...

Into this seasonal sea, which remains for half the year, swims the Amazon river dolphin, or boto. Botos have the characteristic dolphin smile and, unlike their marine cousins, bulbous foreheads ...

But the locals have an even stranger tale; they've long told the story of Boto, the Amazonian River Dolphin species that turns pink. Surprisingly, it turns out that this bizarre tale is true.

You might not be that impressed to receive a clump of grass or branches on a first date, but a boto dolphin might think differently. A new study suggests that these Amazonian dolphins wave bits of ...

But they are fast approaching extinction. The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), or “boto”, is one of the few remaining dolphins on the planet that are restricted to freshwater ...

An Amazon pink dolphin, or boto, near the city of Novo Airão, Amazonas, Brazil.Credit: iStock Video provided by the institute showed vultures picking at the dolphin carcasses beached on the lakeside.