The trait can occur across the animal kingdom, though albino animals often face obstacles to surviving in the wild, including poor eyesight. In albino dolphins, however, blood vessels can be visible through their colorless skin, making them appear pink. A lack of melanin-the pigment that affects the color of eyes, skin and fur-often causes animals to appear white. Albinism is a condition caused by mutations in genes that affect melanin production. While Amazon river dolphins, which are native to South America, are naturally pink in color, these two marine mammals were likely bottlenose dolphins with albinism. “I have never seen anything like it and just wanted to save the memories,” he tells Fox 35 Orlando’s Dani Medina. He stopped the boat, pulled out his phone and immediately started filming, though he was only able to capture the larger of the two dolphins on video. “We were like, ‘Oh my god, it’s so pretty’… I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a pink dolphin.” “We were both freaking out,” Gustin tells Madeline List of McClatchy News.

Houston native Thurman Gustin and his girlfriend were out fishing in a Louisiana channel last week, when they spotted something surprising in the water: two bright pink dolphins.

Fishing planet louisiana