Pink Dolphin

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.




It is small in comparison to the others it is traveling with and appears to be a youngster traveling with mama. After spotting the beautiful mammal cruising with a pod of four other dolphins, Rue and his guests idled nearby while watching and photographing the unusual sight for more than an hour.


"It was absolutely, stunningly pink," Rue said. The albino calf's pinkish appearance is likely produced by blood vessels underneath its relatively thin layer of blubber that would ordinarily be masked by a typical dolphin's gray coloration.


According to marine biologists, this was only the third reported sighting of an albino bottlenose dolphin in the Gulf of Mexico (going back to 1994) and the fourteenth spotting anywhere in the world (the first coming in 1962).


Sorry, I can't get the photos copied in.

My cousin sent me it as a FW, I can copy it but not get it over to here. Does anyone know why and what should I do? Thanks for any help.

I'll try later on again.

[ 18. October 2007, 09:25 AM: Message edited by: Kedi-Gato ]

 

here is the rare pink albino dolphin

 

That is just adorable Sis/rosa. A big bath toy! :D I bet the dolphin center here would love one of those.

 

kedigato, iff its a video the file will be too big i have a whale video that i cant get over into pb then onto here.found these pics hope you dont mind me putting them in.
LoL i,m sure a dolphin center would love one, do hope they dont and leave them in the ocean were they belong.

 

What an amazing picture the second one is, it just doesn't seem real!

Don't know how long the little'um will last in the wild as I'm sure it will be an easy target for predators. :(
Helen.xxx.

 

Rosa super pictures,glad it wasn't in the august photo competition


:D :D :D

 

thanks but unfortunately their not my photos, wish they had of been, guess we will have to go to mexico to get them pics. :D

 

It's not a video, it is the above text and 22 - yes, 22 - pics of the pink dolphin!

I just noticed that they are probably protected but how did my cousin get them to send to me? I e'd her this morning to ask for her link, am still waiting on an answer.

No, rosa, I don't mind you putting a pic in, at least everyone gets to see at least one pic of the little pink darling.

Poor thing really, I do hope that it manages to survive.

 

kedigato would love to see them, lets hope you can get them up

 

unusual sight, but i still prefer the grey

 

Here they are -


http://www.calcasieucharters.com/index.cfm?act=imagegallery.cfm?name=Rare+Pink+Dolphin+Photo+Gallery

 

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://assets.espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoors/general/ii/P1_pink_dolphin.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/report/news/story%3F id%3D2920737&h=232&w=412&sz=34&hl=de&start=7&um=1&tbnid=xSsRW-30KMYSQM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpink%2Bdolphin%2Bpictures%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dde%26rlz%3D1T4RNW N_deDE222DE223%26sa%3DX

 

Kedi-Gato bless his little heart
its so perfect (except colour) i love the colour
hope it lives a long happy life his mum didn't abandon him that looks promising

 

They are amazing Kedi how unusual, there was a story in todays paper of a youg chinese boy Yang Yang aged 4 who swims with a white beluga whale they are having in riding the poor beast bareback to entertain the crowds at the 2008 beijing olympics.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuBGnfaDLX8&mode=related&search=

 

more dolphins... source:flickr.com