Near my ol' neck of the woods, a boat captain photographed this albino bottleneck in Calcasieu Lake, an estuary off the Gulf in southwestern Louisiana
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tags: pinky, pink bottlenose dolphin, albino bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Lake Calcasieu, Eric Rue
Image: Eric Rue, Calcasieu Charter Service.
A rare pink Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, has resurfaced two years after it had first been seen in Lake Calcasieu, an inland…
tags: albino dolphin, mammals, zoology
Image: Captain Erik Rue.
Captain Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service, located south of Lake Charles, Louisiana, has discovered himself to be a sudden celebrity because he took photographs of a pink dolphin recently. Rue and a boatload of guests saw the…
This extremely rare and beautiful "pink dolphin" was spotted and photographed by Capt. Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service on June 24th, 2007 during a charter fishing trip on Calcasieu Lake south of Lake Charles, LA.
An albino dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin, the critter was…
c/o the Telegraph.co.uk, photo by Erik Ruec/o the dailymail.co.uk
A pink bottlenose dolphin has been spotted in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary in Louisiana. The animal has red eyes, indicating that its startling color is due to some form of albinism. So far, it doesn't seem to be…
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Don't you mean bottlenose?
I know this is a deep-sea blog, not a marine mammal one, but still...
:)
I think he meant longneck
Or was it a tall-boy?
Oops, Friday and I had something other than dolphins on my brain. Bottlenose of course...Freudian slip.
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I enjoyed your photo of the albino/pink. Thanks!
i love dolphins and i love pink its about time they are put in to one whole
More like...it's about time we wake up to the wonders of our world, which have been around since before human existance...and begin to humbly care for this planet, and all of it's magnificance! Before our kids find out after things, as amazing as pink dolphins, become extinct, and they then can only read about it, as if it were mythology, even though it was true even in their time, unbeknownst to so many.
Yes! Pink dolphins are real and alive today! Preserve and protect them!Peace~Kennon
At last, the rare shiny pokemon dolphin. I've been searching for you...
wow how gorgeous thnx for sharing the pic
i wonder how the pink dolphin tastes. compared to regular dolphins, i mean.
BEAUTIFUL! WOW! If only once in my life I could be as lucky. We've all been blessed by seeing the beauty in this, one of God's little seen creatures!
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i think thats pretty cool i never seen a dolphin but i really wanted to and now i seen this one i cant wait ...
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How cute! Growing up my favorite stuffed animal was a fluffy pink Dolphin. Btw, there's a kind of Amazonian River Dolphin that is also pink, so this really didn't come as such a big surprise.
Could this dolphin be pink because of human pollution or dumping of chemicals?
Or do you think that the mother contained a rare pink gene that once belonged to the species way before humans came into existance?
Please reply =)
It is pink due to the type food it eats. Like the flamingo that is pink due to the type of fish that they eat.
The dolphin is pink because it is albino. Hemoglobin in blood (red blood cells) give it's flesh and eyes their pink color. Most albinos do not survive well in the wild.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albinism
I was just watching Dora's cousins show. I forget her name. I'm watching it with my 2 year old. lol Anyway, they said something about a pink dophine and I was like noway. I never in my life heard of such. So I had to come online to see this pink dophine and sure enough... there it is. The stuff you can learn from watching these kids shows. lol WOW
this is sooooooooooo beast!!