Updates On 24th Oct 2017

Did you know that Sarawak has dolphins? The Irrawady Dolphin gets its name from the Irrawady River in Myanmar. It even appears in their version of the Little Mermaid.

According to Cambodian myth, people believed that the Irrawaddy dolphin was a fair maiden with the body of a fish. As the story goes, a beautiful maiden was forced by her parents to marry a magical python but decided to cast herself into the Mekong River. However, her suicide bid failed and she was transformed into a dolphin.

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