Pink Dolphin
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 8th, 2009
Source: CantorNews.com
I have to mention that “Pinky the rare albino dolphin” has been spotted in Lake Calcasieu in Louisiana, USA.
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.
There is a species of pink dolphin [Amazon River Dolphin (or Boto), Inia geoffrensis] that lives in the Amazon River in South America, but this Louisiana example appears to be a more common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). There are also pink dolphins seen off Hong Kong, which are Sousa chinensis (a.k.a. Humpback Dolphin, Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin, Pacific Humpback Dolphin, Chinese White Dolphin).
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
To quote a female friend of mine who looks over my shoulder while I read these posts, “I don’t care if it’s a cryptid, I wanna hug it!”
that looks fake. It almost looks like a balloon or something.
that is cool.
Shumway: look for pictures of the golden monkey. Most of them look fake, but they are not…. this tells me most pictures of cryptds may be real including this dolphin. It’s not about quality really; it’s about their skin tone, scale tone, and some animals may look fake, like the coelacanth.
This isnt fake.Rare things do happen.there is a whole species of pink dolphins in the Amazon
Pinky was spotted a couple of years ago when he/she was still a baby. His mother was a standard gray dolphin but his father (as far as I know) is unknown.
Wow, I had never heard of Lake Calcasieu before. I’m curious as to the ecology and types of species in this lake. Very interesting.
Awesome! It’s fun to see that the dolphin is actually pink rather than a slight tinge. A fun find!
Cute critter—funny that it’s actually an albino.
Hope he has many happy years of life. Cool. Great story.
I live about 30 minutes from Calcasieu Lake (Cal-cu-Shoe) and though I’ve never seen bottle nosed dolphins in it, it’s not very far from the Gulf so I guess it is possible. I have seen many porpoises which to me is what the normal colored one looks like. What is strange to me is why none of the local papers or news broadcasts around the Lake Area had anything about this. This is the first time I have seen this, it does look neat though.
Well after some quick searches this thing is all over the net it’s just funny I haven’t talked to anyone who has heard of it around here hehe.
I think the color’s been “pumped-up”.
Saltwater estuary might be a better term for this body of water.
Dogu4- Ah yes, but “Calcasieu Saltwater Estuary” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? 🙂
You’re right, that does seem to be a VERY pink dolphin indeed. Don’t other species get pinker as they get older? If it was a baby a couple years ago, I wonder why it’s not more white. Hard to tell.