Hvad har hajer, lyserøde floddelfiner og elektriske fisk til fælles? De lever alle i Amazonfloden!

Et sted fyldt med dyr, der virker alt for mærkelige til at være virkelige. Og i denne episode går vi på jagt efter Amazonflodens 5 mærkeligste dyr . Så læn dig godt tilbage, og kom med ned!

I episoden kan du høre om:

• Lyserøde floddelfiner
• Hajer, der lever i ferskvand
• Elektriske fisk

• Bassilisken der kan gå på vandet
• Ubehagelige myter om fisk der tiltrækkes af urin

Billeder af

Guarandu, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Ivan Sazima & Jansen Zuanon, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Videnskabelige Kilder

Feitosa, Leonardo & Nunes, Jorge. (2020). A NEW RECORD OF Carcharhinus leucas IN AN AMAZONIAN RIVER SYSTEM. Boletim do Laboratório de Hidrobiologia. 30. 62-67. 10.18764/1981-6421e2020.6.

Mehlhorn, H. (2013). Myth and Reality: Candiru, the Bloodsucking Fish That May Enter Humans. In S. Klimpel & H. Mehlhorn (Eds.), Bats (Chiroptera) As Vectors of Diseases and Parasites (Vol. 5, pp. 179–181). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39333-4_10

Andre kilder

https://www.ifaw.org/animals/bull-sharks

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251107-the-photos-showing-why-pink-dolphins-are-the-amazons-great-thieves

https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/how-do-electric-eels-work.html

https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/07/09/difference-between-electric-eels/

https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Basiliscus_basiliscus/

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/basilisk-lizard

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/dolphin-and-porpoise/amazon-river-dolphin/

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/why-are-pink-dolphins-pink

https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/amazon-pink-river-dolphin

https://www.rainforestexpeditions.com/wildlife/candiru/

https://www.iflscience.com/fact-check-will-a-fish-swim-up-your-urethra-if-you-pee-in-the-amazon-63508