The Children of the Pink Dolphin (3/3)

The Children of the Pink Dolphin (3/3)

The native peoples of the Amazon consider the river dolphin, or boto as it is known, to be sacred, a messenger from the water goddess. Even though Silvio Carallio Romáo left his remote village at quite an early age to move to Manaus to study, he still holds strongly to these ancient myths and legends that surround the boto, including that a drowned person becomes a river dolphin. The Amazon dolphin comes ashore at night as a handsome young man in a white suit with a hat and then disappears the next morning back into the river as a dolphin. Whatever about the myths and legends, the fact is that the boto is a mysterious animal. No one knows how many still exist as they tend to live in inaccessible areas of the Amazon. However, the more Silvio encounters these dolphins on his travels on the world's largest river, the more fascinated he is by them. Along the way, he also meets scientists and others who are trying to fathom the secrets of the boto and understand its behavior. Silvio starts to engage with this process because he knows that mankind is destroying the boto's habitat and with it the livelihood of the Amazon peoples. This is precisely what the 38-year old is trying to prevent.