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07-04-2007, 09:34 PM
A Rare Pink Dolphin (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287938,00.html) has been found.
It's sleek, fast, cute — and pink.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/298649/0_61_pink_dolphin_2.jpg (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287938,00.html#)
A charter-boat captain from Lake Charles, La., photographed a rare pink dolphin a couple of weeks ago in Calcasieu Lake (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:siteSearch('Calcasieu%20Lake');), an estuary just north of the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287938,00.html#) in southwestern Louisiana.
According to Calcasieu Charter Service's Web site, Capt. Erik Rue was on the lake June 24 with fishing customers when five dolphins came into view — four normal-looking gray ones, and a bright pink one that appeared to be an adolescent.
"It appears to be an uncanny freak of nature, an albino (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:siteSearch('albino');) dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin," the Web site reads. "It is small in comparison to the others it is traveling with and appears to be a youngster traveling with mama."
There is a species of pink dolphin that lives in the Amazon River in South America, but this one appears to be a more common bottlenose dolphin (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:siteSearch('bottlenose%20dolphin');).
That is so cool!! I just hope it is able to survive, and no one messes with it!
It's sleek, fast, cute — and pink.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/298649/0_61_pink_dolphin_2.jpg (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287938,00.html#)
A charter-boat captain from Lake Charles, La., photographed a rare pink dolphin a couple of weeks ago in Calcasieu Lake (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:siteSearch('Calcasieu%20Lake');), an estuary just north of the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287938,00.html#) in southwestern Louisiana.
According to Calcasieu Charter Service's Web site, Capt. Erik Rue was on the lake June 24 with fishing customers when five dolphins came into view — four normal-looking gray ones, and a bright pink one that appeared to be an adolescent.
"It appears to be an uncanny freak of nature, an albino (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:siteSearch('albino');) dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin," the Web site reads. "It is small in comparison to the others it is traveling with and appears to be a youngster traveling with mama."
There is a species of pink dolphin that lives in the Amazon River in South America, but this one appears to be a more common bottlenose dolphin (http://javascript%3cb%3e%3c/b%3E:siteSearch('bottlenose%20dolphin');).
That is so cool!! I just hope it is able to survive, and no one messes with it!