Tucuxi

 The word tucuxi is derived from the Tupi language word tuchuchi-ana, and has now been adopted as the species' common name.

• Singular: tucuxi

• Plural: tucuxis

Tucuxi is frequently described as looking similar to the bottlenose dolphin. The dolphin is colored light to bluish grey on its back and sides. The ventral region is much lighter, often pinkish. It is theorized that this pinkish color may be caused or intensified by increased blood flow. The dorsal fluke is typically slightly hooked. The beak is well-defined and of moderate length. 

Like other small dolphins, tucuxis are socially intelligent, cooperative, and able to solve problems. Tucuxis employ whistles, squeaks, and clicks to communicate in acoustically congested river habitats. Their highly developed echolocation is utilized to navigate low-visibility, murky river waters. Dolphins send out high frequency clicks from an organ known as a melon. This melon consists of fat, and the skull of any such creature containing a melon will have a large depression. This allows dolphins to produce biosonar for orientation. Beyond locating an object, echolocation also provides the animal with an idea on an object's shape and size, though how exactly this works is not yet understood.

Compared to sea dolphins, their swimming was less acrobatic but nonetheless swift and nimble. They don't do great aerial maneuvers, but they do modest leaps and spins. Because rivers are shallow, tucuxi dives are often only 30 to 60 seconds long.

The eyes, teeth, and genital organs of tucuxi are sold throughout Northern Brazil as magical charms that promote good luck, love, and financial rewards. Baths are also created with these body parts and are meant to help one attract sexual partners if they bathed in the water. Other products such as perfumes and powders made with the genital organs are sold as aphrodisiacs. The number of dolphins harvested for magical or religious purposes and its effect on tucuxi populations is unknown.

The oil and fat in the skin of tucuxi is used in local traditional medicine as an ointment to be rubbed on wounds or sore body parts. The ointment is thought to treat illnesses such as hemorrhoids, rheumatism, and arthritis, while the teeth are used in a powder form to treat asthma.

Dolphins don't suffocate outside of water; they breathe air like all mammals, although they can die of dehydration out of water.

Tucuxis forage in tight groups, often chasing fish in rapid dashes just below the water surface, with fish jumping out of their way. Thirty species of fish are known to be prey, some living in protected lakes and channels, while others occur in fast-flowing rivers. For most of the smaller species of dolphins like tucuxis, only a few of the larger sharks, such as the bull shark, dusky shark, tiger shark and great white shark, are a potential risk, especially for calves. They also play a role as mid-level aquatic predators, which helps control fish populations. This dolphin maneuvers through waterways, flooded forests, sandbars, and strong currents.

Reproduction

• Mating: Occurs year-round but peaks during high-water seasons.

• Gestation: ~10–11 months.

• Calves:

  • Usually one calf.

  • Length at birth: ~70–80 cm.

  • Nursed for several months to a year.

• Maturity: Around 5–8 years.

• Longevity: 30+ years suspected.

Tucuxis are gregarious animals that dwell in pairs, small groups of two to six, and occasionally bigger feeding aggregations. Compared to bottlenose dolphins, this dolphin was shy, avoided vessels more frequently, and used cooperative feeding when circling fish schools.

The tucuxi was docile and typically avoidant; it was not known to attack, though it would exhibit interest from a distance. Due to its shyness and protected status, it is not frequently used in tourism.

Interactions of tucuxi dolphins with fishing activity is common in the Western Brazilian Amazon. 0.Tucuxi forage on schooling fish that are also important species for commercial fishing in the area. They are particularly vulnerable to entanglement in commercial fishing nets in the lower Japurá River. The carcasses of the dolphins caught incidentally or intentionally are often used as bait for piracatinga fishing.

Threats

• Bycatch in gillnets and fishing gear.

• Habitat destruction: Deforestation, river damming, and sedimentation.

• Boat traffic causing strikes and noise pollution.

• Pollution: Mercury from mining, agricultural runoff.

• Intentional killing for bait (less common than with Amazon river dolphins, but documented).

• Low reproduction rates making populations slow to recover.

Conservation Status

• IUCN Red List: Endangered (EN)

Conservation Efforts

• Protected areas and river monitoring.

• Regulations on gillnet fisheries.

• Environmental contamination control (ongoing).

• Rescue and rehabilitation centers.

• Awareness campaigns against illegal pet trade.

The tucuxi exists along much of the length of the Amazon River and many of its tributaries, and is found in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, southeastern Colombia. The main distributional barriers for tucuxis are waterfalls, rapids and shallow waters.

During The Recollections of Queen Arianna (TROQA) saga in the 2600s and 2700s, the "Sky People," or Terrans from Earth, brought the tucuxi to two exoplanets that resembled Earth: Reinachos from Cygnus and Berbania from Ursa Major. Despite the death of our planet, conservation efforts are helping this species recover from endangerment or near extinction. The dolphin became an invasive species as a result of human interactions for game hunting and rewilding. In two exoplanets that resembled Earth, the tucuxi lived in conditions and climates identical to those of Earth.

• Movement Pattern: Full Migrant

• Individual Type: Pod

• Population Trend: Unknown

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Aquatic

• Habitat: Mangrove Forest; Warm River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Warm Littoral; Cold Littoral.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Brazil; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru

• Berbania: worldwide

• Reinachos: worldwide

• Delphia: worldwide

• Sawintir: worldwide

You cannot tame most dolphin species, except for common dolphin, orca, tucuxi, spotted dolphin, Commerson's dolphin, and bottlenose dolphin in Rapunzel's universe. Dolphins can be fed raw fish or pulled along with a lead that are tamed non-violently, rather than through a cordial and curious creature, it will slowly approach any survivor that is within radius. To tame it, you need to pet the creature twice, then feed it with fish or lobster meat.

There is absolutely no tucuxi in our universe. Their primary justifications are that, as a protected and endangered species, they require complex, wide-ranging habitats; their high intelligence and social demands cannot be satisfied in captivity; and the approach was prohibited in every nation within their range. Unlike their oceanic relatives, tucuxis typically perform very badly in captivity.

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• Nihongo: コビトイルカ

• Türkçe: Haliç yunusu

• Western Elvish: telfaniriva

• Magyar: Parti delfin, folyami gadamu, tukuxi

• Suomi: Rannikkodelfiini

• Polski: Delfin tucuxi, delfin amazoński

• Spanish (Standard/European): bufeo; tucuxi; tucuji

• Spanish (Peruvian): bufeo gris; bufeo negro

• Português: Tucuxi

• English: Estuarine-dolphin; tucuxi

• Svenska: Guyanadelfin

• Terran Saurfolk: Tukkúhi

Reinachos

• Distorter: buffewo; tu‛kuši

• The only few species of oceanic dolphin found in freshwater.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucuxi

• https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/190871/50386457

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sotalia_fluviatilis

• https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sotalia_fluviatilis/

• http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=63569

• https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1466584?ref=dolphins

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Tucuxi-910873834

• https://www.deviantart.com/brokenfin369/art/The-Little-Mermaid-597054468