Dolphins are sometimes born a bit off-color.
And sometimes they're born with no color at all!
There's an all-white Common dolphin, named Caspar, who is consistently seen on a certain whale watching tour. But there are also dolphins whose albino coloring makes them pink!
An albino (lack of color, pink eyes) is pretty easy to spot.
However, some dolphins aren't albino, but they certainly aren't the right color. These could be:
Check out the photos below to see what I mean:
- leucistic (lack of color, but dark eyes)
- hypomelanistic (washed out black colors)
- amelanistic (lack of black colors)
Check out the photos below to see what I mean:
What kind of dolphin do you think these are? Leave a comment and let me know!
The pink albino dolphin is a bottlenose dolphin, I think it was sighted in Louisiana :/
ReplyDeleteThe leucistic dolphin is a common dolphin, but I don't know which species =P
You are right about the albino dolphin! And the leucistic looks like a Striped dolphin to me...though I'm not 100% positive. :)
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