Pink Dolphins

Pink Dolphins

Pink dolphins are extremely rare dolphins that are born as albinos. Because of the lack of pigment in their skin, they are called pink dolphins. Find more pink dolphins news, pictures, and videos here.

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Common Dolphins Habitat

Click The Images To Read More Common Dolphins Pictures The common dolphin is actually comprised of three species: 1) the short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis (Linnaeus, 1758), aka common dolphin, saddle-backed dolphin, short-beaked saddle-backed dolphin, short-beaked saddleback dolphin, saddleback porpoise, criss-cross dolphin, white-bellied dolphin, hourglass dolphin and saddleback, 2) the long-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus capensis (Gray, 1828), aka long-beaked saddle-backed... Read Full Story

Chinese White Dolphin Habitat

Click The Images To Read More Chinese White Dolphin Habitat Chinese White Dolphins are a Cetacean species. In Southeast Asia, they are born with a black colour, they quickly change to grey and gradually become white or pink. Chinese White Dolphins are found near coastlines, and usually near the mouth of major rivers .The Pearl River near Hong Kong provides the estuarine water which is comfortable for them. This population is usually found to the north of Lantau  Island and occasionally to... Read Full Story

How Did The Pink Dolphin Become Endangered

Click The Images To Read More How Did The Pink Dolphin Become Endangered Pink Dolphins, also popularly known as Boto, Bouto or Amazon River Dolphin have bodies that are adapted to the Amazon river and have the Amazon Rainforest as their habitat. They are also commonly found in the streams and main rivers of the Orinoco River systems, the upper Madeira River in South America and Honk Kong's Pearl River. Pink dolphins belong to the genus Inea with Inia Geoffrensis as their scientific name, and... Read Full Story

What Do Pink Dolphins Eat

Click The Images To Read More Like all dolphins, the pink Amazon river dolphin, which is the largest of the world’s four freshwater dolphin species, eats fish. Even though food is plentiful in the waters of the Amazon and and Orinoco river drainages, the pink dolphin, or “boto,” as it is called by natives, is not a picky eater. Around 50 species of small freshwater fishes are on its menu, and it often hunts for them by poking its long, slightly curved beak among the branches of the sunken... Read Full Story

What Are The Pink Dolphins Enemies

Click The Images To Read More The Pink River Dolphin has no "Natural" enemies, like sharks, etc. It's only enemy is Man and man's pollution and destruction of it's environment. What Are The Pink Dolphins Enemies Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (90 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (9.8 LT; 11 ST) (the Orca or Killer... Read Full Story

What Do Pink Dolphins Eat

Click The Images To Read More Like all dolphins, the pink Amazon river dolphin, which is the largest of the world’s four freshwater dolphin species, eats fish. Even though food is plentiful in the waters of the Amazon and and Orinoco river drainages, the pink dolphin, or “boto,” as it is called by natives, is not a picky eater. Around 50 species of small freshwater fishes are on its menu, and it often hunts for them by poking its long, slightly curved beak among the branches of the sunken... Read Full Story

Free Dolphin Backgrounds

Click The Images To Read More Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (90 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (9.8 LT; 11 ST) (the Orca or Killer Whale). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinidae is the largest in... Read Full Story

Dolphin Pictures

Click The Images To Read More Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (90 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (9.8 LT; 11 ST) (the Orca or Killer Whale). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinidae is the largest in... Read Full Story

What Is The Pink Dolphins Food Chain

Click The Images To Read More Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They vary in size from 1.2 m (4 ft) and 40 kg (90 lb) (Maui's Dolphin), up to 9.5 m (30 ft) and 10 tonnes (9.8 LT; 11 ST) (the Orca or Killer Whale). They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinidae is the largest in... Read Full Story

Where Do Dolphins Live

Click The Images To Read More Where Do Dolphins Live The Habitat of dolphins is one of great interest to many Marine Biologists and other scientists around the world. For in order to understand the sheer complexity of the dolphin you must observe it in its most natural form, see what it does, see what it eats, see how it responds to variables and other anomalies within its proximity. Hence the location of where dolphins live is valued, and thankfully there is a great surplus of information... Read Full Story
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