Stung Treng is a region in Cambodia that is haunted by tourists from across the world. The visitors arrive all the way to Stung Treng to get a glimpse of the tourist attractions in Stung Treng. The fresh waters of the rivers that cut across Stung Treng are full of dolphins. These playful creatures with tiny teeth tease the visitors with their antics. The fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng resemble whales in their features but not in their dimensions. The fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng are miniature imitations of blue whales but are definitely bigger in size than friendly cetacean mammals popularly called porpoises.
According to scientific reports, there are approximately fifty fresh water dolphins in Stung Treng in Cambodia. The fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng are extremely amiable with each other and swim across the Sekong and the Mekong Rivers in bunches of eight or so. If you see them from a distance, you will probably feel that some humans are swimming through the rivers in big families and laughing gaily amongst themselves. The dolphin mothers are very protective about their babies. The female dolphins reproduce during the monsoon season of the Northern hemisphere. The infant dolphins are about a meter long on the day they are born. The dolphins just like other mammals suckle their young ones.
The full grown fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng are some two-and-a-half meters long and are also quite robust. According to zoology reports, each fresh water dolphin, Stung Treng weighs in the order of two-hundred kilograms. 'But size does not matter here'. This is because all dolphins whether 'green' or 'grey' are equally jovial. The wisdom that they collect from experience never makes them cynical and skeptical about other species, circumstances and things, unlike 'some mammals with high IQs'. The fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng greet their visitors with their banters and tricks. Tourists and especially the children love to see them dance on the river waters and deliberately fall splashing some water over their faces.
If you stand near the habitats of these fresh water dolphins of Stung Treng for a considerable period of time and observe their dining habits, you will be surprised to find that they are fussy gourmands. The fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng don't put into their mouths any slimy or Piscean creature that comes in their way. They are very choosy and only devour some mollusks and only the fat escargots. And they don't mind at all if visitors pick up a few of their 'meals' for zoological study and anatomical examinations.
Master rovers, the fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng greatly impress the visitors by swimming at velocities of twenty five miles per hour. If you can exist underwater for a quarter-of-an-hour's time with the aid of a scuba apparatus, the fresh water dolphins, Stung Treng can perform the same feat naturally.
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