Friday, March 27, 2009

A Pink Dolphin?


There are surely strange natural happenings...Recently in an inland lake in the Southern USA a charter boat captain saw and photographed an albino bottle nose dolphin which he described as "stunningly pink."It was swimming with a pod of four,one of whom appeared to be its mother.

Pink dolphin appears in US lake

"The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone."
Further from the article in the Telegraph
"Charter boat captain Erik Rue, 42, photographed the animal, which is actually an albino, when he began studying it after the mammal first surfaced in Lake Calcasieu, an inland saltwater estuary, north of the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA.

Capt Rue originally saw the dolphin, which also has reddish eyes, swimming with a pod of four other dolphins, with one appearing to be its mother which never left its side.
He said: "I just happened to see a little pod of dolphins, and I noticed one that was a little lighter.

"It was absolutely stunningly pink.

"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.

"The dolphin appears to be healthy and normal other than its coloration, which is quite beautiful and stunningly pink.
..."I have personally spotted the pink dolphin 40 to 50 times in the time since the original sighting as it has apparently taken up residence with its family in the Calcasieu ship channel.

"As time has passed the young mammal has grown and sometimes ventures away from its mother to feed and play but always remains in the vicinity of the pod.

"Surprisingly, it does not appear to be drastically affected by the environment or sunlight as might be expected considering its condition, although it tends to remain below the surface a little more than the others in the pod."...

Article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake

4 comments:

elsie said...

pink dolphins, so cool!! just discovered your blog on an etsy forum thread - come on over and visit me sometime:

http://namaste-elsiee.blogspot.com/

Angie said...

How neat! I didn't know such a thing existed!

LiPeony said...

wow that almost trumps the pink elephant! =D

KnockKnocking said...

That is totally neat!