Pink dolphin a standout in La. shipping channel

[thundley4]

Doesn't look pink to me, except for the fin.

NEW ORLEANS – What's pink, has red eyes and leaps around a Louisiana shipping channel long enough for you to believe your eyes? A rare albino bottlenose dolphin. Bottlenose dolphins are common in the lower Calcasieu Ship Channel, feeding in the deep water and riding on top of boats' waves. And when the pink one jumps amid four dark gray dolphins, it's easy to spot.
The albino is just the 14th reported worldwide, and the third in the Gulf of Mexico, according to biologist Dagmar Fertl of Plano, Texas.
It was first reported by Wesley Lockard of Rayville, La., as a small calf in June 2007. Lockard, 26, said he and family members were fishing when they were stunned by the sight. "Something comes up and you say, `Wow! Did I just ...?' Then he comes up again and you say, `Yeah! I just saw a pink dolphin!'" he said.

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A dolphin visiting from San Fran is my guess, but I was wrong.

[jtyangel]

Actually, it's behind a regular dolphin in that pic...you are seeing just the edge if you look closely behind it...here is another pic of one in another area...they are albino dolphins and quite rare apparently.

Odd looking creatures. Type of thing that would probably have someone throwing their Captain Morgan's overboard if they saw it.  Pepto Bismal could make an add campaign around that thing.

[Chris]

Interesting.  Those red eyes look a little painful.

[thundley4]

Actually, it's behind a regular dolphin in that pic...you are seeing just the edge if you look closely behind it...here is another pic of one in another area...they are albino dolphins and quite rare apparently.

Odd looking creatures. Type of thing that would probably have someone throwing their Captain Morgan's overboard if they saw it.  Pepto Bismal could make an add campaign around that thing.

Thanks for the better pic.

Interesting.  Those red eyes look a little painful.

I can remember my eyes feeling almost as bad as those look.