Albino Dolphins

The photo above is of the dolphin spotted in Louisiana in 2007. The clip below is of the same dolphin in California.



A rare sighting of an albino or “pink” dolphin was reported off the coast of Dana Point, in 2008. Capt. Dave Anderson said he has only seen the albino dolphin once before during his years at sea, but this is the first time he’s ever been able to capture it on camera.
“We’ve never been able to get close to it until yesterday,” he said. “It got close up to the boat and was riding with us.”

In most cases, common dolphins are a sleek gray color. Anderson thinks this albino dolphin is the same one he saw before, in a group of about 500 common dolphins that swam alongside the boat.

There are about 400,000 common dolphins along the coast here, Anderson said.

“We just never see this, it’s just a rare and unusual sighting,” he said.
Among the passengers were 14 students from around the USA as well as Italy, Sweden, Great Britain, Spain, and Scotland, who were attending a summer course on Spinal Cord Injury Research hosted by the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at the UC Irvine.


Now it seems. clip below, there have been other ones spotted in Newport Landings. One of the babies below actually looks "pie-bald" or multi-colored, half grey and half white.