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02 Mar 2009, 10:12 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -lake.html

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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.

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02 Mar 2009, 11:22 pm

Wow! It's beautiful too. At first, I didn't think it could be real, until I read the article.

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02 Mar 2009, 11:45 pm

That is absolutely gorgeous . Thank you for sharing. Amazing picture.

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02 Mar 2009, 11:50 pm

D'awwwww! What an amazing-looking animal.

From the article:

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the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern USA.

What maps are they looking at?

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03 Mar 2009, 12:30 am

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Wow! It's beautiful too. At first, I didn't think it could be real, until I read the article.

Dolphins aren't real...

They are mythical creatures like unicorns and giraffes.

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03 Mar 2009, 12:51 am

Oh hell, that's in Lake Charles, LA. Less than an hour from me actually.
I'd go try to see it, but I'm sure it hasn't hung around.

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03 Mar 2009, 3:31 pm

I hate to say this, but it oughtta be caught and kept in captivity. I can imagine that, like other albinos, it's probably susceptible to skin cancer and other skin diseases. Besides, it has no natural camouflage - it'll be a beacon to predators. I realize it is part of a family group, but this is pretty sad already.

Still, it is beautiful.

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03 Mar 2009, 4:01 pm

Cool. I've never heard of a pink dolphin before but I would like to see one.

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03 Mar 2009, 5:07 pm

Amazon River Dolphin can often be quite pink

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03 Mar 2009, 6:04 pm

Another one?
There was a story about a pink dolphin elsewhere a while ago, but it wasn't a pink as that! Now THAT is pink.

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03 Mar 2009, 11:05 pm

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04 Mar 2009, 3:03 am

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Nature should take it's course. It's pod will protect him. Humans can't save everything.

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04 Mar 2009, 5:47 am

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

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Are you always this gullible? How about the Loch Ness monster? I have a bridge I would like to sell to you for under a thousand dollars. Are you interested?

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04 Mar 2009, 9:06 am

ruveyn wrote:

ShadesOfMe wrote:

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

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Are you always this gullible? How about the Loch Ness monster? I have a bridge I would like to sell to you for under a thousand dollars. Are you interested?

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are you joking with me? or mocking me??

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04 Mar 2009, 9:20 am

ShadesOfMe wrote:

Are you always this gullible? How about the Loch Ness monster? I have a bridge I would like to sell to you for under a thousand dollars. Are you interested?

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are you joking with me? or mocking me??[/quote]

I am an Old Aspie. Everything I say is to be taken literally. By the way have you ever seen the movie -Wag the Dog-?

With computer editing of photos and pixels nothing pictured can be taken as the truth for certain. Don't believe everything you see.

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04 Mar 2009, 9:31 am

Think pink topic

Albino humans also have a pink hue to their skin.

Albino apes, mice, rabbits and rhinos have this feature as well, so it is plausible that a dolphin would also appear this way.

Let National Geographic do a feature about this phenomenon, perhaps this will appease your skepticism.

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