Field researchers from the Mamiraua Institute of Sustainable Development capture a rare Amazon river dolphin, also known as the pink river dolphin, during an expedition aimed at assessing the health of these animals and installing a GPS tag to monitor their movements and how they react to the heat in the lake during this year's drought following the death of 300 dolphins last year, most of which were in Lake Tefe according to the project head of the Mamiraua Institute, in Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, August 19, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
(This Aug 22 story has been corrected to clarify the chip's role, satellite tags not attached, in paragraph 5)
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - A team of biologists, vets and fishermen temporarily captured rare freshwater dolphins in the Amazon this week to study their health in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the deaths of hundreds of the mammals last year due to a severe drought.
