BLINK FOR PINK
Put down that beer or glass of wine!
It's not a pink elephant but a pink dolphin that continues to be spotted on Calcasieu Lake south of Lake Charles, La.
Capt. Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service first spotted the rare pink dolphin in June and says he stills sees the young bottlenose dolphin swimming with its mother from time to time.
The albino dolphin is pink because calves don't have as much of a blubber layer, and without the gray coloration, the blood is right at the surface, according to Dagmar Fertl, a marine biologist for Geo-Marine, Inc. out of Dallas.
There have been 14 recorded sightings since 1962.
(OK, so I got carried away with the dolphin videos!)
Photo by Capt. Erik Rue
It's not a pink elephant but a pink dolphin that continues to be spotted on Calcasieu Lake south of Lake Charles, La.
Capt. Erik Rue of Calcasieu Charter Service first spotted the rare pink dolphin in June and says he stills sees the young bottlenose dolphin swimming with its mother from time to time.
The albino dolphin is pink because calves don't have as much of a blubber layer, and without the gray coloration, the blood is right at the surface, according to Dagmar Fertl, a marine biologist for Geo-Marine, Inc. out of Dallas.
There have been 14 recorded sightings since 1962.
(OK, so I got carried away with the dolphin videos!)
Photo by Capt. Erik Rue
Labels: Calcasieu Charter Service, Calcasieu Lake, pink dolphin
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