It's sleek, fast, cute — and pink.

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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.

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[1JadedJen]

I have heard of pink dolphins, but never have seen a pic of one. Someone told me that they are more native in the amazon area?
Anyway, thanks for posting the pic, that is way cool

 

[Bartuc08]

albino i assume?

 

[ArmedCitizen]

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.

The article does mention those dolphins but this seems to be a normal bottlenose dolphin.

"It appears to be an uncanny freak of nature, an albino dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin," the Web site reads.

It appears you assume correctly.

 

[Tonks]

Shweet.

 

[PurgeandFire]

It looks like Kirby swallowed a dolphin.

 

[sqrage]

That picture, for some strange reason, really, really digusts me.

 

[pladams9]

Probably because the dolphin's eye makes it look sickly.

 

[Demi666]

it doesent look real :O

 

[Miz]

Don't you people know that Pink Dolphins are just albino dolphins that got sunburned

Kinda looks fake but it looks real at the same time