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Dolphin hug by Jaime Rojo, Spain. Jaime watched as Federico Mosquera, a biologist from the Omacha Foundation, Colombia, soothed an Amazon river dolphin. These dolphins are tactile animals and direct contact calms them. The team from Omacha and WWF were transporting the dolphin to a temporary veterinarian facility in Puerto Nariño to install a GPS tag in its dorsal fin as part of a project researching river dolphin health and migratory patterns. The goal was to tag five, but high waters gave the dolphins a wider roaming range than usual, and the crew tagged only one during the expedition. (Photo by Jaime Rojo/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021)
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