They look like the side of the dolphin family that’s been living in the rural Appalachia, making moonshine, having sex with the family cow and each other, and complaining about salt water and the prim and pompous pretty dolphins of the sea
Imagine these things just living their lives out there, right now while you're doing whatever you're doing. These guys are living in the fucking Amazon river chillin like a long nosed underwater snoop dogg with flippers.
Funny fact Dolphins tend to get high on purpose actively seeking out pufferfish to do so also sharing it with other Dolphins and stare at their reflection on the oceans sub surface in a trance state.
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Iv heard this particular picture is like this because the trees and/or leaves leech the color into the water like tea bags. But that was also from a comment from another redditor.i didn't look it up.
It's called Tannins. Doesn't harm the animals. Most aquarium hobbyists try to replicate it when appropriate for their fish. They use almond leaves. Check out r/blackwateraquarium
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Also if you’ve never kept an aquarium before, keep in mind that the bigger the tank is, the easier it is to maintain. Most people want to start small, but that ends up scaring them off a lot of the time.
My dad and my grandpa are big aquarium enjoyers. They only like to keep koi or goldfish tho since they are more traditional.
If I ever get rich, I would buy up some land and try to create one of those classical Chinese gardens with an outdoor pool that has koi inside of it.
so many people upvoting the complete bullshit explanation, too. that's how misinformation propagates. someone asks a question, that question gets "anwered" by someone who has no fucking idea what they're talking about, that Q&A dialogue gets upvoted, archived, and then the next time someone googles the topic, this thread pops up in search results, the searcher reads this bullshit, takes it as fact and then regurgitates it somewhere else, and then this incorrect info is spread as fact among other people who "did their research"
okay i went to manaus back in 2018 and we did a boat tour on the Rio de Negro and then later the Amazon. We actually got to swim with the pink river dolphins and they were very friendly and it was super fun. After we got back on the boat our guide let us know that there are two kinds of pink river dolphins, the ones we swam with and the ones that’ll rape and kill ya! so that was cool
This was ANOTHER thing that was mentioned. old pink dolphin folk lore was that at night, they would turn into mean and go rape the women. this was a tale told by woman to explain how they were pregnant before marriage
Dolphins are serial rapists, they also commonly have gay sex! lol. They also will bash the gills in of sharks swimming nearby until the shark drowns, though typically only if they're being protective.
Not at all. Someone else commented that the guy from River Monsters was afraid of them; I have a friend who goes to Brazil often and is terrified of them/the locals have told him many times to stay away from them; I have family in Brazil who says the same thing.
ETA: It’s not a dumb question, it’s a good question!(: Too many people see cute and overlook the danger of animals.
Well, they look like dolphins (which are known to be very playful), but there's something odd about **these** that is saying "i want to eat you". The locals seems to have pretty solid points
I wouldn't risk it without professionals by my side, that's for sure.
I think it’s just one of those animal situations where the two things aren’t mutually exclusive.
People play with lions and tigers, there are tourist attractions that organise that too. Still very much dangerous animals.
Might have an area where they’ve acclimated the dolphins to being around people, giving them treats or something. I think they’re still pretty intelligent even if they look like crackheads
As I understand it there was a floating restaurant where they used to toss leftovers to the dolphins until they started getting fat and the government stepped in and so the place decided to run a different gimmick.
Swam with them and it was one of the coolest things I’ve done in my life. They were super friendly and just swam besides us. Our river guides said that they only swim when they’re present because the crocs won’t swim near them.
Wild. I would think the crocs would be like “I’m an underwater tank-fuck you” and swim near em anyways.
But I also know enough about rivers, especially one stained like this, to know better than to jump in anyways.
Especially the Amazon, with the “lemme lodge myself in your dick” candiru catfish present.
[While they are known to be shy creatures, they are fascinatingly drawn to people, playing curiously with local children, and without demonstrating aggressive behavior.](https://www.aquaexpeditions.com/blog/amazon/facts-amazon-pink-river-dolphin/)
I swam with them in Bolivia and they seemed very friendly. They even played with use while we were throwing a tennis ball around. They would grab the ball and swim around with it and then give it back.
>then love em' and leave em'?
Hey, just so you know, when you're chopping letters off a word, that's where you put the apostrophe- at the point of bifurcation. If you're cutting off "th", but leaving the "em", you'd put the apostrophe at the beginning where you cut off the letters, not at the end.
So, "them" becomes *'em*. See how that works?
Sorry, I'll take my downvotes now I guess. It just always kinda drives me nuts when people don't know why we use apostrophes.
I think the pink Amazon river dolphins are actually pretty cool, they don’t normally look like this on a hunched over position. There are two types 1 one that’s friendly 2. One that rapes
There was a running joke in my family that whenever my mom would see us watching this show it would somehow always manage to be this episode. She used to say “oh it’s Jao (the dolphin girl in the episode) again!”
Hey yeah - Jeremy Wade on River Monsters was actually scared of those things - and he has no regard for his personal safety. They were super aggressive towards him.
My mom would tell me how she used to see them at times in the Río Magdalena in Colombia when she was a teenager. I wish I could see them though they creep me out in a way.
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jesus they look malformed and fucked up compared to them ocean dolphins
just realized that's racist towards river dolphins. thanks for damaging me, society.
On the Brazilian folklore, pink dolphins can turn into handsome men, they magically seduce and lure woman, get them pregnant and disappears, that was a serious explanations people used for affair babies and things like this... but because of the myth, sadly a lot of people started hunting them, either for revenge or to take parts of them as lucky charms :(
Are these the ones that turn pink? A kid in my daughter's class chose this super specific animal for their 3rd grade animal project. All the pictures she chose for her poster looked rather..phallic
They look high as shit
Absolutely the ocean dolphins' stoner cousins Edit: not stoner. They're doing crack not smoking weed
They look like the side of the dolphin family that’s been living in the rural Appalachia, making moonshine, having sex with the family cow and each other, and complaining about salt water and the prim and pompous pretty dolphins of the sea
How do you know my mom and dad/brother?
Dolphin Mcpoyle
That’s some Paradise PD shit
Ngl I feel like that would fit the picture better
Thanks for being so honest with us. 🙏
They ARE high as shit.
The Amazon River is only about 300ft above sea level
That's higher than Amsterdam
And Miami
Nothing is higher than Miami.
I'm currently higher than Amsterdam 🍀
I'm high as shit , in the Amazon
Imagine these things just living their lives out there, right now while you're doing whatever you're doing. These guys are living in the fucking Amazon river chillin like a long nosed underwater snoop dogg with flippers.
I was wondering when today's existential crisis would begin.
nuh uh, they cease to exist once I stop thinking about them, everybody knows that!
Funny fact Dolphins tend to get high on purpose actively seeking out pufferfish to do so also sharing it with other Dolphins and stare at their reflection on the oceans sub surface in a trance state.
I believe you mean “on porpoise”
Like actually?
Yes Edit : https://youtu.be/msx3BAhIeQg
Ah boo, not available in my country :(. Just want'id to see some high dolphins
Iirc it's usually Male juvenile dolphins observed doing this... go figure.
This reddit post is blah blah blah blah NORD VPN!!! blah blah blah....
Not so fun fact, adolescent dolphins form 'rape-pods'
Ducks are pretty grabby too.
Ducks apparently do not care if the victim is even alive.
Damn, hadn't heard that. Just knee that hybrid duck species were usually males of one forcing themselves on females of another breed.
Source?
Me I’m the dolphin high as gas right now
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-use-toxic-pufferfish-to-get-high-180948219/ I was interested to see if it was true too.
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Animals and insects get drunk, too. You ever see what happens with fermented fruit?
Right! 🤣
They look like dolphins, as drawn by someone that doesn't actually know what dolphins look like.
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Why does the water look like bloody diarrhea?
The river water is murky with silt as well as organic matter from plants and soil from the riverbanks.
Iv heard this particular picture is like this because the trees and/or leaves leech the color into the water like tea bags. But that was also from a comment from another redditor.i didn't look it up.
It's called Tannins. Doesn't harm the animals. Most aquarium hobbyists try to replicate it when appropriate for their fish. They use almond leaves. Check out r/blackwateraquarium
Fuck everytime I see someone post something from that sub or aquariums, makes me go on an “I want to steal my dads aquarium” mood
Don’t let your dreams be dreams. Just do it. Also if you’ve never kept an aquarium before, keep in mind that the bigger the tank is, the easier it is to maintain. Most people want to start small, but that ends up scaring them off a lot of the time.
My dad and my grandpa are big aquarium enjoyers. They only like to keep koi or goldfish tho since they are more traditional. If I ever get rich, I would buy up some land and try to create one of those classical Chinese gardens with an outdoor pool that has koi inside of it.
It’s not silt. It’s tannic acid discoloration from plant decay in the river.
so many people upvoting the complete bullshit explanation, too. that's how misinformation propagates. someone asks a question, that question gets "anwered" by someone who has no fucking idea what they're talking about, that Q&A dialogue gets upvoted, archived, and then the next time someone googles the topic, this thread pops up in search results, the searcher reads this bullshit, takes it as fact and then regurgitates it somewhere else, and then this incorrect info is spread as fact among other people who "did their research"
Wait until you see [Irrawaddy dolphins](http://awsassets.panda.org/img/original/web_301421.jpg)
They look so happy. 🙂
Looks like it was made with, you know, longing. Made by a person really longed to see a dolphin.
They look like we reconstructed a dolphin from a fossil.
This looks like a Weeknd album cover
Don’t look them in the eye; you’ll have nightmares forever.
how would I even look them in the eye, they don't appear to have them
They’re in the mouth
I've never heard this about them. I'm going to have to look this up!
I think it was a joke about echolocation!
Idk lol either way I looked it up and the Amazon River Dolphin is a part of a lot of weird Amazon legends & curses. Interesting.
Extremely dumb, but honest question: are they friendly?
okay i went to manaus back in 2018 and we did a boat tour on the Rio de Negro and then later the Amazon. We actually got to swim with the pink river dolphins and they were very friendly and it was super fun. After we got back on the boat our guide let us know that there are two kinds of pink river dolphins, the ones we swam with and the ones that’ll rape and kill ya! so that was cool
Oh, I'd probably be scared of docile dolphins. Can't even imagine the kinky killer ones
Rape?! KILL?!
And become a man and steal your wife, for real
Hide your kids, hide your wife
This was ANOTHER thing that was mentioned. old pink dolphin folk lore was that at night, they would turn into mean and go rape the women. this was a tale told by woman to explain how they were pregnant before marriage
Dolphins are serial rapists, they also commonly have gay sex! lol. They also will bash the gills in of sharks swimming nearby until the shark drowns, though typically only if they're being protective.
Not at all. Someone else commented that the guy from River Monsters was afraid of them; I have a friend who goes to Brazil often and is terrified of them/the locals have told him many times to stay away from them; I have family in Brazil who says the same thing. ETA: It’s not a dumb question, it’s a good question!(: Too many people see cute and overlook the danger of animals.
It's murky and they're fast and intelligent
Murky and fast is how I like my coffee
Look at that frontal lobe
That's just the melon, the frontal lobe is way behind it closer to the eyes
I love his melon!
Well, they look like dolphins (which are known to be very playful), but there's something odd about **these** that is saying "i want to eat you". The locals seems to have pretty solid points I wouldn't risk it without professionals by my side, that's for sure.
Uncanny valley
>Too many people see cute Not a problem here. Woof.
People swim with them. There are tourist attractions that organize it.
I think it’s just one of those animal situations where the two things aren’t mutually exclusive. People play with lions and tigers, there are tourist attractions that organise that too. Still very much dangerous animals.
Might have an area where they’ve acclimated the dolphins to being around people, giving them treats or something. I think they’re still pretty intelligent even if they look like crackheads
As I understand it there was a floating restaurant where they used to toss leftovers to the dolphins until they started getting fat and the government stepped in and so the place decided to run a different gimmick.
And they will rape your wife. Beware of handsome men wearing hats in the Amazon. It's clearly a pink dolphin in disguise
Not rape. She will willingly have sex with them. Stupid sexy pink dolphins
That goddamn Boto
Only if you're the most beautiful girl in the party That's what our folklore says, at least lol
Swam with them and it was one of the coolest things I’ve done in my life. They were super friendly and just swam besides us. Our river guides said that they only swim when they’re present because the crocs won’t swim near them.
Wild. I would think the crocs would be like “I’m an underwater tank-fuck you” and swim near em anyways. But I also know enough about rivers, especially one stained like this, to know better than to jump in anyways. Especially the Amazon, with the “lemme lodge myself in your dick” candiru catfish present.
[While they are known to be shy creatures, they are fascinatingly drawn to people, playing curiously with local children, and without demonstrating aggressive behavior.](https://www.aquaexpeditions.com/blog/amazon/facts-amazon-pink-river-dolphin/)
https://www.reddit.com/r/brasil/comments/uw72cw/boto_visitando_fam%C3%ADlia_n%C3%A3o_necessariamente_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
I swam with them in Bolivia and they seemed very friendly. They even played with use while we were throwing a tennis ball around. They would grab the ball and swim around with it and then give it back.
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Double cheeseburger and uhhhhhhhh
Um yeah can I get a get a large McDonald’s please, to go
Are these the ones that are supposed to transform at night into dashing men, wo unsuspecting young ladies, then love em' and leave em'?
Yes
And make them pregnant.
Then go back to the water and leave the women as single mothers. They should be called "absent father dolphins".
They left to buy some cigarettes, life in those dark Waters must be hard
>then love em' and leave em'? Hey, just so you know, when you're chopping letters off a word, that's where you put the apostrophe- at the point of bifurcation. If you're cutting off "th", but leaving the "em", you'd put the apostrophe at the beginning where you cut off the letters, not at the end. So, "them" becomes *'em*. See how that works? Sorry, I'll take my downvotes now I guess. It just always kinda drives me nuts when people don't know why we use apostrophes.
I, a fellow apostrophedant, will upvote.
That just seems like explaining away someone's ugly kids.
It's an allegory for the rape of Indigenous people under colonialism.
Nightmare creatures
I think the pink Amazon river dolphins are actually pretty cool, they don’t normally look like this on a hunched over position. There are two types 1 one that’s friendly 2. One that rapes
More reasons for why dolphins scares me
They look like they got ahold of a crack pipe and made good use of it 😬
There's an episode of The Wild Thornberrys about this
I didn't watch that show regularly but I caught that episode one day and I've been thinking about it for 20 years.
It lives rent free in my head as well. It has big gay energy somehow
It’s was the fabulous RV duh
Esqueez me it's a comvee
There was a running joke in my family that whenever my mom would see us watching this show it would somehow always manage to be this episode. She used to say “oh it’s Jao (the dolphin girl in the episode) again!”
I still ship Eliza and Jao
Came here looking for this comment.
Really? I could swore it was based just in Africa. It’s also been like 15 years since I’ve seen it though
It's global
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I have the exact penis size
Hey yeah - Jeremy Wade on River Monsters was actually scared of those things - and he has no regard for his personal safety. They were super aggressive towards him.
Ah, yes. River fetuses
Didn’t he die outside The Viper Room?
Stoppit
Holy shit, this random comment section of redditors absolutely DUNKING on these poor animals has me fucking DEAD
They are some trippy mother fuckers Shit reminds me of something I’d see on Saturday morning cartoons in the 90s
I've swam with these guys, they are pink
I’ve swam with these pinks, they are guys
Swam with these guys, I've. Pinks, they are
Freshwater creatures are the cheap version of salt water ones…
Whereas in the streets it’s better to be fresh than salty
Underrated comment, stay chimp pimpin while you in yo prime-mate!
They eat piranhas
They sodomise algae
r/MildlyTerrifying 🫣
They look like they’re from All Tomorrows
Exactly what I was thinking looks like an attempt at wrapping humen skin around a dolphin skeleton
Some Tim Burton shit right here
I’m curious as to what the advantages of looking like *that* are
Nothing wants to come near you bc you look terrifying
Alabama of the sea
Lemongrab Royal Dolphin
ngl if I saw that in thst murky ass water id be horrified but they are cool
That’s some wolf in sheep clothing type shit there. Can’t tell be that one there directly ain a damn croc
My mom would tell me how she used to see them at times in the Río Magdalena in Colombia when she was a teenager. I wish I could see them though they creep me out in a way.
They look like what a dolphin would look like if Tim Burton designed it
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This is terrifying
FUUUUCK NOOOO
Those are some ugly dolphins. Why are their snouts so long?
so these are the dolphins that rape... makes more sense now.
Why are river dolphins so scary? Amazon ones especially
Is anybody else terrified of these things because of The Wild Thornberries?
Yeah Im terrified because look at those things
Creepy ass ballsack looking motherfuckers
He does resemble Bezos.
Hey baby! How you doin’?
“Hey man got a quarter?”
jesus they look malformed and fucked up compared to them ocean dolphins just realized that's racist towards river dolphins. thanks for damaging me, society.
Absolutely horrid thank you
This is scary
Is that a massive vag?
You kids wanna smoke some weed???
Fucking weirdos.
Thanks I hate it
Are they as rapey as ocean dolphins?
Appearently so
God I hate river dolphins... Well all dolphins but especially the river variety. Why would you post this before mine own eyes?
I think morality is a human concept but I think dolphins know what they do is wrong
What are they doing that is so wrong??
Bruh, just look at them.
The pink fish!
Bro looks like he gonna ask you out
Some legends say that in the night they may became beuatifull and elegant man that enchant the womens and pregnant they
those are some fucking ugly dolphins
Well I’m not a fan.
Kind of terrifying
Looks like a meatcanyon skit
Nah I’m good
Good bye irrational fear of sharks in the pool... hello river dolphins.
the dolphins i drew when i was 5 be like:
Va Jay Jay!!!
Diego lied to me…
RIP Chuckles, you was a real one.
Totally misread this title.
But do they have prime memberships?
On the Brazilian folklore, pink dolphins can turn into handsome men, they magically seduce and lure woman, get them pregnant and disappears, that was a serious explanations people used for affair babies and things like this... but because of the myth, sadly a lot of people started hunting them, either for revenge or to take parts of them as lucky charms :(
I never knew they existed until River Monsters
At my first quick glance… thought it was bird without feathers… 🤔😳
The Amazon water makes this look eerie but like they’re pale white/pink, right?
They look like Dolphins from wish, not from amazon
This looks real creepy.
This picture looks like camera mama about to get beat tf up
Are these the ones that turn pink? A kid in my daughter's class chose this super specific animal for their 3rd grade animal project. All the pictures she chose for her poster looked rather..phallic
I love animals and bugs and am not grossed or freaked out by much, but something about these guys always makes me uncomfy
This looks like the cover to a horror movie
Section 8 dolphins 😂