In Pakistan, the rare Indus River Pink dolphin is nearly extinct. And while some may blame British colonialists for building low-level dams as the reason for this dolphin s decline, there's another story. They rape these dolphins because when they're young, they have small pink vaginas resembling a woman's. But they apparently find it irresistible, so they rape them. It's possibly the only species raped by humans to near extinction.
00:00:00.000In Pakistan, the rare Indus River pink dolphin is nearly extinct.
00:00:05.280The Indus River dolphin and its cousin, the Ganges River dolphin, are two river dolphin subspecies that are today the only surviving members of a once primitive and widespread group of archaic Cetaceans that swam in the ancient Tethys Sea 50 million years ago.
00:00:21.200The Tethys Sea once covered what is now India, Indonesia, and the Indian Ocean.
00:00:25.960The survival of these dolphins is crucial to the local ecostructure.
00:00:29.200They're considered an indicator species, acting as an indicator of the health of the rivers in which they live.
00:00:35.100They are the canaries in the coal mine of freshwater.
00:00:38.000If they're breeding and reproducing, it means they're doing well.
00:00:40.980If there's a drop, then it means something is wrong in the river's ecosystem.
00:00:44.680And I've seen rivers in that part of the world.