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« on: July 03, 2007, 07:49:18 PM »

Rare Pink Dolphin Seen in Louisiana Lake
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 It's sleek, fast, cute — and pink.

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.

"It appears to be an uncanny freak of nature, an albino dolphin, with reddish eyes and glossy pink skin," the Web site reads. "It is small in comparison to the others it is traveling with and appears to be a youngster traveling with mama."

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

Click here for more photos of the pink dolphin:

http://tinyurl.com/3b9kjc
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« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2007, 08:44:28 PM »

that is way cool
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« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2007, 08:52:03 PM »

It makes me want one of my own!  Very Happy
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2007, 08:58:39 PM »

Wow I didn't even know pink dolphins existed.
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2007, 09:22:10 AM »

Neither did I San  Shocked

you know who might try to slap a tiara on it too  Laughing
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« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2007, 05:06:02 PM »

That is really cool
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« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2007, 04:15:11 PM »

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It sure is...I saved it and sent it every person I know, lol!!
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2007, 11:18:58 AM »

I saw part of a program this week about animals who are pink having problems with sunburn and skin ailments....hope this cutie will be okay for a long time....but bet that someone will capture it for an aquarium...
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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2007, 02:12:45 PM »

Morning my Monkeys,
I just now saw this.  OMG, what a special little creature.  It just goes to show ya how sweet those Dolphins are, don't most animals in the wild not want anything to do with one that is different than they are? I love Dolphins!!!!!
back to lurking, I have lots to read and catch up on..
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