If you’ve seen pictures of the pink dolphin and thought “what a cute little animal” we’re sorry to have to spoil your imagination. A tourist was bitten on the foot by a dolphin in a river in Santa Rosa de Yacuma, Bolivia.
To be honest, pink river dolphins are not usually violent. But this one showed it Behave with the tourist in a river in the Amazon basin. Claire wanted to visit all of South and Latin America, but her dream was cut short by an acute infection at the site of the bite.
Tourist is bitten by pink dolphin
The Amazon Basin has a wide variety of animals and hence many people go to see them in the waters. The pink river dolphin is one of them, but it is not known to be violent, which allows tourists to swim and play with them.
However, the tourist Claire had an extraordinary experience. While enjoying this moment with the dolphins, one of them bit his right foot.
She was on board the boat while playing with the animal with a plastic bottle. The item fell from her hand and the tourist went down to the water to get it. At this point, she was aggressively bitten by the pink dolphin.
infection
When she was bitten, Claire immediately went to one Health local. But due to a lack of medical equipment, she was taken by car to a town four hours from where she was staying.
When they arrived, they found an overcrowded hospital. Claire had to stay in a hostel, which caused her wound to become infected. She had to be moved again! to a hospital in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia.
There, the woman experienced another chapter in this saga: Claire had to undergo an operation in which a graft had to be removed from her groin to insert it into the wound.
Despite everything, she was lucky, reports the tourist, because she could have lost her foot or her life from the infection.