Pink Dolphin??

The photograph you see above is a not a photo shop edited image but a real one. Erik Rue, a Charter boat captain, is the one who took the picture of the animal above. The pink dolphin above is actually an albino dolphin which was found in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA.

Capt Rue described that the said dolphin is not only pink in color from tip to tail but also has reddish eyes and skin that appears smooth and glossy. He said that he spotted this dolphin 40-50 times already, swimming with a pod of four other dolphins, with one appearing to be its mother which never left its side.


"I had never seen anything like it. It's the same color throughout the whole body and it looks like it just came out of a paint booth.", said Capt Rue.

Well, I think that most of us will agree with that statement. Its a kind of dolphin that Hello Kitty and fans would be proud of. I only see pink colored animals on cartoons and I never dreamed that I would see a pink animal, a dolphin at that. To this dolphins fans there is no need to worry though we can consider this as a sick dolphin since this condition was caused by albinism (which actually made me a bit more puzzled since isn't an albino be abnormally white not pink hahaha), Capt Rue assured that "the dolphin appears to be healthy and normal other than its coloration, which is quite beautiful and stunningly pink".


A close relation of dolphins, the Amazon River Botos, called pink dolphins, live in South America in the Amazon. To the people living near Lake Calcasieu, please take good care of the lake and its inhabitants especially this very special pink dolphin.

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