Talk:Ganges and Indus River Dolphin

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The new range map is very good. Thanks for doing it. The improvement it makes to this article far outweighs the slight decrease in consistency across other articles... of course if you fancy upgrading any of them ... feel free to check out the list at cetacea... :-) Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:10, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Glad to see you like it. But sorry, I won't update any of the other cetacea maps any time soon—I'm busy with sailing ships and eumeces. Lupo 10:47, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Worth a try :-). Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 10:48, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Needs verifying

From the article:

Intesting Fact:

In order to avoid floating debris in the River, Pilleri found that Dolphins living in the river indus only sleep for a few seconds at a time in order to protect themselves.

This is uncited, and in an odd place in the article. Who is Pilleri, and can we have a verifiable cite for this, please? -- The Anome 08:42, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] not Gangeticus?

Why is it P. gangetica ? Isn't platanista masculine? —Muke Tever talk (la.wiktionary) 21:29, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pitch

I understand this species has the highest-pitched sound of all mammals (and animals?) at 380 kHz. A quote from This pages for instance says, reference included, "Very efficient ultrasound system. Echolocation sounds of up to 380 kHz. (Shrestha, 1995)" (scroll down to Family Platanistidae). This is considerably more than any bat or true dolphin (family Delphinidae). Earlier I had seen the same figure in Lyall Watson's Whales of the World: A Field Guide to the Cetaceans (1981). --Anshelm '77 12:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)