Pink dolphin

On February 2, Erik Rue - a fishing boat owner in the saltwater lake Calcasieu, in the northern Gulf of Mexico - snapped up photos of the rare dolphin with red and pink skin in the area. .

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Rare pink dolphins in the Calcasieu saltwater lake, Mexico - Photo: The Sun


Mr. Erik confided: 'I am really happy to see a pink dolphin stand out when it swim and have fun with a group of normal black dolphins in the lake of Calcasieu'. Immediately, he 'grabbed' this rare moment.

"At this time last year, pink dolphins appeared on the lake once, but no one had taken a picture of this particular marine creature," he said . Since then, he began his research and passionately watched dolphins live in Lake Calcasieu.

Picture 2 of Pink dolphin

The Amazon River Basin, South America is home to the pink dolphin (Inia Geoffrensis), also known as Boto dolphin, but biologists say the pink dolphin is caused by a disease. Albino of the gene mutation.