Rare Pink Dolphin.

[critter crazy]

A Rare Pink Dolphin has been found.


It's sleek, fast, cute — and pink.


A charter-boat captain from Lake Charles, La., photographed a rare pink dolphin a couple of weeks ago in Calcasieu Lake, an estuary just north of the Gulf of Mexico 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 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.


That is so cool!! I just hope it is able to survive, and no one messes with it!

[Blue Dragonfly]

Wow, that is amazing. it is probably some type of albino, and the pink is from blood vessels. thanks for sharing this.

[Sevaede]

Ohhhh, Lauuura! Have you seen these pink dolphins in your travels?

Great pic! That is too cute and amazing.

[Marigold2]

Amazing, now lets hope we as a species have enough sense to leave it in peace.

[Hellow]

Wow, i have never even heard of a pink dolphin until now! Cool! Now lets hope the fishers dont turn retards and go out to kill it.

[chocolatepuppy]

Wow! How cool. That dolphin is so cute.

[sweetpatata6]

Wow, i have never even heard of a pink dolphin until now! Cool! Now lets hope the fishers dont turn retards and go out to kill it.

Well, they may not kill it, but it WILL be an easy target in the wild being pink and not the natural color... Unfourtunetly it would stand out to preditors... I love how in the picture it looks like the dolphin's smiling