Lead by aquarium director and biologist for California Academy of Sciences, Earl S. In November 1968, an expedition was carried out by Steinhart Aquarium near Sukkur, Western Pakistan, to capture Indus river dolphins for study. © California Academy of Sciences, from “Sierra Club Handbook of Whales and Dolphins” (1981) author’s scan. One of the three susu at Steinhart, early 1969. No other details were written on how it died or if it was released. He fed the youngster live fish, which it readily ate. The earliest attempt was made in 1878, when Scottish zoologist and anatomist John Anderson captured a young Indus near Dacca, and kept it in a bath filled with fresh water for 10 days, near his home in Calcutta. At one point, from the end of the 1960’s through the mid-1970’s, a handful of Indus river dolphins were kept in captivity, in order to better understand how they lived in such silty, murky waters. Very little is known about these enigmatic cetaceans, and minimal research has been conducted into their behavior and way of life, given their rarity and less than ideal water conditions in which to study them. According to marine mammal specialist, Gill Baulik, there is now a recorded link between the Indus’ disappearance and the construction of irrigation barges, which trap and isolate the dolphins, preventing them from more extensive foraging and breeding.
On top of that, hydropower and irrigation dams only add to their troubles. Scanned from “Secrets of the Blind Dolphins.” A Pakistani local prepping a susu for transport, following its brief time in an acclimation pond, December 1969.
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