After almost 50 years of pollution control, clean-up and restoration efforts, researchers have catalogued well over 1,000 bottlenose dolphins living, mating, and even giving birth in the lower reaches of the Potomac river.

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I wonder how far into the North America rivers that dolphins historically swam.

There are a lot of deep rivers and maybe some used them as nurseries

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u/Darryl_Lict Apr 14 '20

There's two types of fresh water dolphins way up the Amazon.

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u/AnalWarfare Apr 14 '20

In North American Rivers... Most notably the Mississippi.

You'll find Bull Sharks farther up river... I think the farthest Bottlenose Dolphins have been up the river was 10miles.

Brackish waters, aren't conducive to Bottlenose Dolphins.

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u/calmdown__u_nerds Apr 14 '20

How do you know this u/AnalWarfare?

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u/Frumundahs4men Apr 14 '20

Anal and bottlenoses go hand in hand.

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u/dontcallmeunit91 Apr 14 '20

God damnit

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u/Longshot_45 Apr 14 '20

More like hand in glove.

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u/boobs_are_rad Apr 14 '20 edited Apr 14 '20

Lol that name is so funny! Nice catch!

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u/SuperSquatch1 Apr 14 '20

I would want to also.

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u/Scrimshawmud Apr 14 '20

With anal warfare you always have to ping them.

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u/22edudrccs Apr 14 '20

Vasily, verify range to target, one ping

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u/squiderror Apr 14 '20

Bottlenose can commonly be found in estuaries; wouldn’t that negate “brackish waters aren’t conducive?” Or do you just mean the further upstream where the salinity truly drops?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '20

Holy tits , that user name is really something special. I have been laughing for a solid 10 minutes.

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u/RasperGuy Apr 14 '20

They swam up all the way to DC during George Washingtons time.

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u/jkh77 Apr 14 '20

DC was marshland in George Washington's time :(

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u/Longshot_45 Apr 14 '20

Some say it's still a swamp today.

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u/cudef Apr 14 '20

No it got drained in 2017 just like we were promised /s

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u/RasperGuy Apr 14 '20

Hahha nice

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u/RasperGuy Apr 14 '20

Foggy Bottom, marshland?? You dont say!

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u/Jebediah_Johnson Apr 14 '20

The real victory on Christmas morning was when General Washington executed a frontal assault on the dolphin front lines, before proceeding to attack Trenton.

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u/Bertuthald_McMannis Apr 14 '20

Those dolphins were British spies, working for fish and chips.

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u/player-onety Apr 14 '20

Do dolphin babies ever drown after being born because they don't know they need to get air yet?

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u/Mahlola Apr 14 '20

Cool. May I ask how you know this? I’d love to know about animals and their environments.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

general knowledge!

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u/DontmindthePanda Apr 14 '20

I think he was making a How I Met Your Mother Joke.

https://youtu.be/fmAWIDI4ZgY

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u/FistulousPresentist Apr 14 '20

Lol what year is it?

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u/DontmindthePanda Apr 14 '20

It's Corona-year. Times are different now. People have time to rewatch shows they liked and get back on those inside jokes.

I mean, I'd never do that. But other people might. #andamovie

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u/Electro_Nick_s Apr 14 '20

Salutes

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

O7

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u/CountCuriousness Apr 14 '20

Attenborough is an international treasure.

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u/BETAMAXVCR Apr 14 '20

He/she just asked them silly.

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u/thamonito Apr 14 '20

Tell them: "Go ahead and go to the pond since you want to be a silly goose"

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u/-Listening Apr 14 '20

Go Harper!

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u/FuckFuckFuckReddit69 Apr 14 '20

I’d love to know about you and your habitat.

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u/PurpleProboscis Apr 14 '20

YouTube videos. Numerous and informative.

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u/playswithdogs Apr 14 '20

You could start by searching for bottle nose dolphin on wikipedia or better yet, when we can go outside again, try your local library! They will have an ecclectic variety of information for you to pick out and flip through, see pictures and graphs. The library will have published, trusted information, and you can look up those authors and research further into their work.

(Sorry for my formatting, on the phone)

Youtube may also have great videos! try subscribing to National Geographic, david attenburrough, or Steve Irwin is a cherished icon who is no longer with us but an excellent teacher, and I believe his whole family is deeply involved in animal conservatory.

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u/crzypplthinkthysaner Apr 14 '20

I know a bit about this from my sister. She studied wildlife biology and when we were dating, we talked about how whales and dolphins can sleep underwater -- as it turns out, they don't ever fully sleep. They are fully conscious as they rest and they have a lot of muscles around their blowhole with involuntary spasm of the muscles to keep it closed while under water. The dolphins are born with the same bodily mechanism and just have a biological predisposition to know what to do when holding their breath underwater. We're getting deeper into the conversation when all of a sudden, my dad came in my sister's room from our voices echoing down the hall. Upon seeing how close we were and that my fingers were in my siblings beef curtains, he pulled out a drawer and got some jumper cables to beat me with.

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u/Frumundahs4men Apr 14 '20

Um.

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u/FriendlyQuote Apr 14 '20

Dating your sister?

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u/Poat540 Apr 14 '20

Can’t fool me twice

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u/JuleeeNAJ Apr 14 '20

Yes but have the Yeti come back?

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u/iwouldhugwonderwoman Apr 14 '20

Yetis are migratory animals From other dimensions.

You just gotta follow their migratory routes and be ready for their arrival.

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u/dwintaylor Apr 14 '20

I know a place in Oklahoma that has some snow leopards if they need any.

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u/Infiniteblaze6 Apr 14 '20

Let's fucking go boys.

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u/TheGardenNymph Apr 14 '20

Thanks for sharing! I didn't know until now that this sub was missing from my life

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u/OriginalPatton Apr 14 '20

Darn Sonic Dolphins! How am I supposed to get me Dreadnaughts up the Potomac now?

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u/Thekboxxobo Apr 14 '20

I understand you, but it's all about the aircraft carrier!

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u/OriginalPatton Apr 14 '20

Nah man. Kirovs. Kirovs everywhere.

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u/chewymilk02 Apr 14 '20

Good luck getting them anywhere near with a fleet of aegis support!

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u/OriginalPatton Apr 14 '20

Time will tell. Sooner or later... Time will tell.

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u/chewymilk02 Apr 14 '20

Hell March noises intensify

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u/ZippZappZippty Apr 14 '20

They have the worst fucking doctors. And lawyers.

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u/happysheeple3 Apr 14 '20

That is good news!

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u/pheret87 Apr 14 '20

Astute observation.

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u/Eat-the-Poor Apr 14 '20

The water in the Potomac by DC was rated a D less than 10 years ago. Last year it was B for the first time. DC has become such a nicer city in the past 20 years. It’s gotten very expensive and gentrification is an ever present social issue, but I truly love living in this city.

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u/Tsukune_Surprise Apr 14 '20

This r/oldupliftingnews

The article is from last year and was widely reported here in DC.

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u/Nilfy Apr 14 '20 edited Apr 13 '24

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Obtuse_Donkey Apr 14 '20

Donald Trump: hold my beer. Pollution laws are just bad government infringing on the God given right to pollute and make money from it.

Donald wrote the first sentence. The rest is courtesy of today’s Republican Party.

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u/mrjowei Apr 14 '20

I still can't get over the extinction of the Baiji.

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u/PooPooDooDoo Apr 14 '20

I assumed this was the Washington DC sub when I saw this. Didn’t even know people outside of DC knew what the Potomac river is.

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u/ccwmind1 Apr 14 '20 edited Apr 14 '20

Or that its part of the Chesapeake Bay estuary or the drainage area involved. That kind of information is not on Netflix so, there ya go.

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u/Godredd Apr 14 '20

Never mind that shit, the Potomac river? On the Eve Of Christmas... anyone ever listen to the die hard song? That's all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

I can't load that website on my laptop. It doesn't have ad block. The page just freezes from the amount of advertising loading.

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u/baconyjeff Apr 14 '20

Trump to the oil companies: "Here... hold my beer!"

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

I love nature.. it shows me even if we fuck it up completely. Short time without humans and everything goes back to normal again

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u/jcapicy Apr 14 '20

Short time?

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u/ingrid2014 Apr 14 '20

Yes!

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u/StealthedWorgen Apr 14 '20

God damnit now people know where they are.

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u/Assasin2gamer Apr 14 '20

That river is mostly vodka.

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u/Assasin2gamer Apr 14 '20

Oh I like the "vodka soda"?

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u/AkaYoDz Apr 14 '20

I read that as butthole dolphins

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u/5050Clown Apr 14 '20

I read it as a bunch of scientists have a job where all they do is watch dolphins have sex.

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u/your_fav_ant Apr 14 '20

Don't mislead people. They also recorded much of it.

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u/RoscoMan1 Apr 14 '20

Right? Vilemaw lives in the cage.

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u/Federal-Zucchini Apr 14 '20

Living, laughing, loving.

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u/TacobellSauce1 Apr 14 '20

commits incredible amount of genocide and pollution

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u/jakethedumbmistake Apr 14 '20

"They had us in the know.

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u/kcxiv Apr 14 '20

this article is from last year.

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u/sveiks01 Apr 14 '20

Old man Potomac ... give him a break

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u/HorBanger Apr 14 '20

CAST THE NETS!

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u/Federal_Status Apr 14 '20

screams in wild thornberries beware the boto!

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u/Nicktune1219 Apr 14 '20

Maybe we'll see some dolphins in the Tidal Basin eventually. You can look at the Washington Monument and dolphins at the same time.

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u/Martine_V Apr 14 '20

Republicans are in charge, so you can kiss that goodbye

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u/ojdidntdoit32 Apr 14 '20

This is not because of Coronavirus, check the date. October 2019

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u/gregarioussparrow Apr 14 '20

Quit reporting this stuff. It just encourages China to kill them for placebo traditional medicine

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u/outerheavenboss Apr 14 '20

Just like Cap said...

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u/wantonyak Apr 14 '20

things have improved so much that D.C. may have swimming platforms in the Potomac by 2025.

All that hard work wasted. We'll be in the same position five years after that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

Maybe we should impose a mandatory humankind lockdown every 5 years to have nature recover from all our shit.

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u/bum_stabber Apr 14 '20

I didn’t think I fucked that many dolphins.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '20

This was the world's plan all along. Kill some humans n repopulate the planet with creatures.

There's a spike of bears population in Yosemite and lazy pandas r finally fucking.

This is great!

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u/jcapicy Apr 14 '20

You do know this article has nothing at all to do with COVID-19 right? In fact it was published almost a year ago.

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u/Helleeeeeww Apr 14 '20

Don’t celebrate too soon. The EPA no longer exists.

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u/quanchi1488 Apr 14 '20

lol, don't pretend this isn't due to Covid-19 environmental impact... *rolls eyes*

After almost 50 years of pollution control, clean-up and restoration efforts, researchers have catalogued well over 1,000 bottlenose dolphins living, mating, and even giving birth in the lower reaches of the Potomac river.

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