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Friday, August 31, 2012

The Amazon river dolphin

Mercury pollution from small-scale gold mining activities are one of the main threats to the Bolivian river dolphin, a subspecies of the Amazon river dolphin. The mercury reaches dolphins through the food chain. They mainly eat catfish, which are bottom feeders greatly affected by metals like mercury in the water
http://worldwildlife.org/species/amazon-river-dolphin

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