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Pink dolphin spotted in Louisiana lake

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-04 09:27

A pink dolphin spotted in Lake Calasieu in Louisiana.

This photo shows a rare albino dolphin in Lake Calcasieu in Louisiana. The dolphin gets the pink color because it lacks the pigment that would turn it the same color as its mother. [Agencies]

'Good Morning America' showed footage of the calf, an albino bottlenose, which ordinarily is gray, according to biologists.

The rare albino apparently was swimming with his mother on the lake, which is an inland saltwater estuary north of the Gulf of Mexico.