India's longest and most holy river, the Ganges, is home to thousands of dolphins ... river dolphins - 6,324 Gangetic and just three Indus dolphins. A majority of the Indus dolphins are found ...

etc.). These Punjab rivers instead flowed eastward into the Ganges river system. These rivers were soon “captured” by the Indus drainage system, significantly increasing the river’s discharge.

A small population of the Indus river dolphin, a close relative of the Ganges river dolphin, is found in the Indus river system in India. According to the report titled 'Population Status of River ...