While urinating as a means to communicate or increase social bonding is not uncommon among animals, it is unusual for aquatic ...

By Sarah Brown Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pushing to approve exploratory oil drilling at the mouth of ...

A viral video shows an Amazon river dolphin (boto) urinating in the air, igniting a flurry of humorous commentary online ...

Over four years, a team from Canada’s CetAsia Research Group traveled to the Amazon river, where they then closely watched river dolphin social interactions. Researchers documented a total of 36 ...

Paddington's in Peru! Here's what to pack and what to expect for your Amazon River cruise in Peru (and why you might not want ...

The return of the floating structures shows the resilience of illegal gold mining in the Amazon, which destroys the riverbeds ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to pick up social cues ...

Scientists are perplexed by a strange new behaviour shown by the Amazon river dolphin of flipping belly-up to urinate with ...

Instead, the researchers suggest that the behavior is used in social contexts. Amazon river dolphins possess bristles on ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is defending oil exploration near the mouth of the Amazon River as a way to ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with environmental agency Ibama this week or the next to discuss ...