Discovering extremely rare albino dolphins

Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare albino dolphin off the southern coast of South America.

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The albino dolphin is extremely rare besides a large dolphin believed to be its mother - (Photo: AP)

The team at Univille University in Santa Catarina on December 1 said it was the first time that an individual albino in the pontoporia blainvillei - the dolphins is very shy and rarely jumps out of the water.

In Brazil it is called the Toninha , and in Argentina and Uruguay it is called La Plata or Franciscana.

Camilla Meirelles Sartori - head of research project Toninha, said she saw this special dolphin for the first time in late October and by early November, her group took a picture of it.

'We were shocked and shocked. It's very small, and its color is really different, ' she said.

Toninha is currently on the list of endangered species. This species has a long, thin and very easily caught nose. They can drown or die from stress if not quickly released.