- RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian biologists say they have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America.
The research group based at Univille university in Santa Catarina studies the pontoporia blainvillei species, a very shy type of dolphin that rarely jumps out of the water.
The project’s lead biologist is Camilla Meirelles Sartori. She says she first saw the white calf with pinkish fins at the end of October. It was with an adult, probably its mother. The young live on their mother’s milk until they are six months old, and remain depend on the adult until they’re a year old.