Pink dolphin appears in US lake

[Dover]

An omen?


The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone.






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.

Capt Rue originally saw 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.

He said: "I just happened to see a little pod of dolphins, and I noticed one that was a little lighter.

"It was absolutely stunningly pink.

"I had never seen anything like it. It's the same color throughout the whole body and it looks like it just came out of a paint booth.

"The dolphin appears to be healthy and normal other than its coloration, which is quite beautiful and stunningly pink...cont'd

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html

[phantom power]

1. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

[zbdent]

2. if I were from Code Pink,

I'd adopt it as a symbol ...

[hatrack]

3. Wow . . . . just . . .

Weird.

But very cool!

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Fred Phelps plans to protest it.

And Pat Robertson will spouting off about wicked gay dolphins any day now.

(j/k) It's actually kinda cute.