pinkish dolphins are the kind of affair you might find in a phantasy novel , but one seems to have slipped out of the pages and jumped right into Earth ’s rivers . Introducing Pinky , the perfectly pink dolphin that has been seen happily lark about in the waterways of Louisiana , America .
She was first spotted in 2007 by Captain Erik Rue , who was sailing down the Calcasieu River . Since then , he has catch plenty of footage of the stunning dolphin , including this TV in 2011 .
The magic pink color is probably the result of Pinky ’s inability to produce the skin pigment melanin , which gives dolphins their gray color . This disorder , which can affect all mammals , is of course make love as albinism . The disorder is usually recessionary , which mean Pinky ’s parents could have had normal dolphin colourings , despite each carrying genes for the disorder . But would n’t being an albino make her white , not pinkish ?
" The pink color is just blood at the skin ’s surface , like when humans flush or blush , " Naomi Rose , from the Animal Welfare Institute , told theDodo . " Same phenomenon . ' Regular ' bottlenose dolphins do this all the fourth dimension too , but you ca n’t tell , because their normal hide paint is gray-headed . "
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Another possibility is that Pinky ’s pinkish chromaticity is because she is anAmazon river dolphin(see below ) , which are course pink . However , not everyone gibe .
" I know they have the Amazon river dolphins but those are kinda ugly and splotchy , " Rue toldNewsweek . " This one is just smooth pink , from point to trail . It ’s very pretty . citizenry love find out it . It ’s an unusual person we are fortunate enough to have here . "
disregardless of how Pinky get her chromaticity , there may be some little mahimahi on their way to Louisiana waters . There has beenspeculationthat Pinky has been see mating . This does n’t necessarily mean that she ’s meaning , and the chances of her receive pink babies are even slimmer ( her mate would need to conduct albino factor ) . But that does n’t hold back anyone from hoping !
Pink Amazon river dolphin . Guentermanaus / Shutterstock .
