I thought albinos had little to no pigments which is why they're white. Also it's kind of too prominent to be a 'natural' pink... I'm calling PS.
Nah, it's definitely albinism. All albinism is is, basically, a gene which inhibits the production of an amino acid required to produce melanin in the skin. I'm not sure if it would be the same pigment as humans in dolphins, but regardless it would be the same problem, inhibiting the production of the amino acids, which would change the pigmentation of the skin. Out of all of the abnormal colours for such an animal to be, pink would probably end up being the most likely to occur. Too bad it can't be captured and inbred, to produce a novelty race of purchasable dolphins, haha.
Why would pink be the most likely to occur? Light grey I can imagine since most dolphins are a tint of grey or dark blue.
I said of all the abnormal colours. Pink would have to arise through a mutation in the gene pool, which it has through albinism, but grey could simply be part of the range of naturally occuring pigmentation, just as there's variation in pigmentation amongst humans, even if looking exclusively at one specific race, due to the colour of the skin being dependant off of many genes, not just a single gene as albinism is, as many dolphins do have light-greyish coloured skin.
so....do you think, if this pink dolphins get offsprings, do you think its babies will be pink aswell?
The offspring would be normal coloured, unless it mated with another albino, as in actually white, dolphin, where I'm not sure where the offspring would be either completely white or completely pink skinned, patchy or dappled white and pink skinned, or a pale pink colour. It would depend on how the genes work. If it mated with a regular dolphin, then its offspring would all appear normal, but would be carriers of the pink gene. In order to get more pink dolphins, the offspring would have to be inbred, and about a quarter of the offspring would be pink. Gotta love Mendelian genetics and the fact that I'm doing it in Bio right now.
Yeah, i did do bio last year...but i totally forgot everything. I remember you can draw a diagram to see if the offspring would either be dominant, co-domiant, recessive....ermm...there were other things...but atm my brain cant remember them heh.
I got it their could be a movie called "Attack of the Walking Pink Dolphins" or AWPD or "Awaken the wordy parody of draging" or AWPD or "And walking pack door"
