If you saw pictures of the pink dolphin and thought “what a cute little animal”, we are sorry to destroy your fantasy. A tourist had her foot bitten by a dolphin in a river in Santa Rosa de Yacuma, Bolivia.
Truth be told, pink river dolphins are not usually violent. But this one showed behavior with the tourist in a river in the Amazon basin. Claire intended to visit all of South and Latin America, but her dream was interrupted by an acute infection at the site of the bite.
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Tourist is bitten by pink dolphin
The Amazon basin has a huge variety of animals, and as a result, many people go to see them in the waters. The pink river dolphin is one of them, but it is not known for being violent, which allows tourists to bathe and play with them.
However, tourist Claire had an out-of-the-ordinary experience. While enjoying this moment with the porpoises, she took a bite from one of them on her right foot.
She was on board the boat while playing with the animal using a plastic bottle. The object fell from her hand and the tourist went down to the waters to get it. It was at this point that she was aggressively bitten by the pink dolphin.
Infection
When she was bitten, Claire immediately went to a health local. But, for lack of medical equipment, she was taken by car to a town four hours away from where she was.
When they arrived, they found a crowded hospital. Claire had to stay in a hostel, and as a result, her wound became infected. She had to be transferred – yet again! – to a hospital in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia.
There, the woman lived another chapter of this saga: Claire had to undergo surgery in which it was necessary to take a graft from her groin to put it in the wound.
The tourist reports that, despite everything, she was lucky, as she could have lost her foot or her life due to the infection.