EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Indus river dolphins are found in Pakistan and River Beas, a tributary of Indus River in Punjab, India. The dolphin is the state aquatic animal of Punjab and WWF-India is working towards its conservation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Indus river dolphins are found mostly in the lower parts of the Indus River in Pakistan. The dolphins historically swam freely through about 3500 km of the Indus River system from the Indus estuary, through the plains to the foothills of the Karakoram mountains1, 4.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indus River dolphin is one of the world’s most endangered freshwater river dolphin. Only about 1, 100 of this unique species exist today in the lower parts of the Indus River in Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Now approximately 2, 000 specimens of this species exist in a small fraction of their former range, the lower reaches of the Indus River in Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Indus River Dolphin, meanwhile, has a population of 6-8 dolphins in India, distributed only in a small pocket of the Beas River in Punjab, with majority of the population, of 1, 816 individuals, residing in Pakistan.