Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Pink Dolphin

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Louisiana - USA , inland lake
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Pink Bottlenose dolphin
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The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was 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. 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. While this animal looks pink, it is an albino which you can notice in the pink eyes. Albinism is a genetic trait and it unclear as to the type of albinism this animal inherited. A close relation of dolphins, the Amazon River Botos, called pink dolphins, live in South America in the Amazon.
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