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Ganges Dolphin (Platanista gangetica)

at Tezpur, near Nameri National Park, Assam, 2014

The best photo I got (the dolphin is heading to the left - you can see its beak if you look closely!). Cool animals to watch though, even if they are well-nigh impossible to photograph successfully!
at Tezpur, near Nameri National Park, Assam, 2014

The best photo I got (the dolphin is heading to the left - you can see its beak if you look closely!). Cool animals to watch though, even if they are well-nigh impossible to photograph successfully!
 
Damn nice species, damn nice shot, damn you Chlidonias ;) :p
 
Wonderful!
I used to draw cartoons of the susu on my exercise books at school when I got bored in Geography lessons :)

Alan
 
It's next to impossible to get pictures of either subspecies of South Asian River Dolphin anywhere online, thank you for posting this.
 
Every pic of the long-beaked fresh-water dolphin species in Aisa is fantastic! I am so jealous! And I begin to understand why there was not even one good picture of wild baiji left, because the fresh-water dolphins are too hard to photo!
 
Every pic of the long-beaked fresh-water dolphin species in Aisa is fantastic! I am so jealous! And I begin to understand why there was not even one good picture of wild baiji left, because the fresh-water dolphins are too hard to photo!
as I understand it, Baiji never jumped so the best view naturally was a breaking back or rostrum. With the Ganges Dolphin they do quite a bit of jumping, which really surprised me, but there is just no way at all to tell where one is going to break the surface so getting a photo is pure luck.

The only Baiji I have seen is that one in the museum we went to in Beijing.
 

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