A child's perspective...!

As we await research news from our researchers in India, enjoy this short story from a child who lives alongside the population of Irrawaddy dolphins in Chilika Lagoon, India

This article was written on June 26th, 2008 by Vaibhav Pirpa, from class 6 of Stokes Memorial School, Shimla.

Life in Chilika Lake, Orissa (as written by Vaibhav, the Irrawaddy dolphin)

I am a dolphin. I live in Chilika lake, Orissa. People call me an IRRAWADDY DOLPHIN. I am very different from other dolphins. I don’t have any snout. I like to eat many fishes. Some birds are bad and snatch food from me. I have sonar by which I communicate to my relatives. My nose (blowhole) is above my head. This happened because of evolution. I am a helper to man. I take many shoals of fish to the net and they get trapped. They (fishermen) give me food in return. But I have seen that some fishermen that catch fish sometimes catch us and we die. Some people drive motor boats. We come near them and the propeller cuts us. When I swim, I see many eels near me. I have a dorsal fin on my back. My tail looks like a whale’s tail. I got my name “Irrawaddy dolphin” when I was found in the Irrawaddy river. I like to do many things such as somersaults and spitting. I sometimes get fungal infections from which I get patches on my skin. Our population is decreasing. Please help us and don’t kill us. We get very hurt.

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