Pink Dolphins.

By Miss Cellania in Animals & Pets on Jun 3, 2007 at 11:46 am

The Pink Dolphin is an endangered river dolphin that lives in the Amazon Basin. They get their strange coloring from eating crustaceans such as shrimp, much in the same way flamingos maintain their pink color. Link -via Digg

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toby
Jun 3rd, 2007 at 2:08 pm
contrary to popular belief its actually algae that causes the colour in flamingos , not shrimp
quinnn
Jun 3rd, 2007 at 2:12 pm
the beta-carotene that turns them pink is found in the shrimp and algae.

/But I want a pink dolphin now!
Auntie Macassar
Jun 3rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
You know what’s funny? There was an episode of Venture Bros. that features Brock riding a pink dolphin. It didn’t occur to me that it might actually exist and wasn’t just the result of Brock tripping his brains out.
Eric
Jun 3rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Thats so crazy.
Bueno
Jun 4th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Actually, this “river dolphins” are called “Botos”. They are relatives to the common ones dolphins.
Joe
Jun 5th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
We also have Pink Dolphins in Hong Kong. I think they are related to those in S.America.

Check out this horrendous website
http://www.hkdolphinwatch.com/
Amy
Jul 30th, 2007 at 11:19 am
There’s pink dolphins in the childrens animation “Go, Diego, Go” and my husband and I had a bet that their cartoon was acurrate or just made up. I won, there really are pink dolphins just like the cartoon showed!

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