Comments by "Kathy Bramley" (@kathybramley5609) on "Pink dolphin named “Pinky” spotted playing in Louisiana ship channel" video.
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Such poor reporting. This doesn't make sense or have any level of zoological detail to make sense - what species of dolphin is Pinky!? It looks like a bottlenose!? Having looked it up - I was right.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4927224/Pink-dolphin-appears-in-US-lake.html - this article says bottlenose and quotes Regina Asmutis-Silvia, senior biologist with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , that it's an albino and that you can tell from the pink eyes, though the article doesn't really explain albinism either. And they give a poor half-mention of other pink dolphin species existing. Well, one of them.
The title of the article that pointed me here (https://www.healthyfoodhouse.com/nearly-extinct-pink-dolphin-gives-birth-to-pink-calf/?fbclid=IwAR3WtpQIF2sV7u5V10WHdyRhCOFnTqdyY5GUbtgdHCu5SUsTdDbHkLiWr1M) suggested a rare pink dolphin species but the article and this video did suggests a genetic variation without even mentioning the species, nor that other species threatened pink dolphins that do exist. In other locations than Lousiana ship channels. Or even Calacasieu Lake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcasieu_Lake
It's just a poor approach to news here, so far as I can tell, seemingly compounded by this wrong, unspoken default idea that Flipper, ie a bottlenose, is the only kind of dolphin that there is or was, ever. There are in fact 40 surviving species called dolphin. Some of them are more pink That's the problem with this video - and the way that expert interview is shown that really doubles down on that problem. It is not the same expert quoted in the Telegraph article, but I'm hoping she knows her stuff too, if neither has seen a bottlenose dolphin or other dolphin as pink as this before. It's odd they both use that phrase. I hope this is not . Often headlines are written by different people - maybe they confused the story of Pinky with the story of other threatened pink dolphins. Or they just didn't know the difference between a variation within a species of dolphin and a separate species which is also pink and called dolphin - a name it turns out if given to several families of cetaceans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin
So threatened pink dolphin species - there's pink Amazon river dolphins https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/00000144-0a28-d3cb-a96c-7b2d1ba00000
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/amazon-river-dolphin
And then there's pink dolphins from Hong Kong
https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-are-the-endangered-dolphins-of-hong-kong-pink-51603
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