Tourist captures video of two extremely rare pink dolphins swimming in
a Louisiana ship channel.
Bridget Boudreaux was on a boat cruise with her husband in the
Calcasieu Ship Channel when she saw a group of dolphins playing in the water,
two of which were pink.
“I about fell about the boat,” she told KHOU-TV. “I was like, wow,
that’s not a regular dolphin, that’s a pink dolphin.”
While she was only able to capture a still shot of one of them, she was
able to capture a brief video clip of both of them swimming alongside a ship:
“It was an awesome experience,” she told CTVNews.ca, adding that “the
pictures don’t do it justice.”
“Pinky” the dolphin was first photographed in Lake Charles, Lousiana by
a charter boat captain in 2007, when she was just a baby.
Captain Erik Rue and others have spotted and photographed the rare
specimen every summer since, even creating a fan page for her on Facebook:
In 2015, Captain Rue caught photographs of Pinky engaging in mating
behavior and suspected she might be pregnant.
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