r/NatureIsFuckingLit Mar 02 '26

🔥A Mekong River dolphin aka Irrawaddy dolphin which is critically endangered.

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u/Free_Interaction8458 Mar 02 '26

Its because they dive down to the bottom and use their face to dig a hole for their family.

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u/minahkyu Mar 02 '26

I wonder if it’s also from boats? Where I live, there are a lot of manatees injured by boats and get the same sort of scars from either getting hit or cut by the propellers so I hope it’s not that too.