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Pink Dolphin Spotted In Louisiana "Lake"

By Jason Heller, March 3, 2009 @ 02:00 AM (EST)

A bright pink Albino bottlenose dolphin was spotted in Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. You have to see the image to understand just how vividly pink this dolphin is - very different from the pink dolphins of the Amazon River.

"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." ...

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