A lot of local mythology surrounds the “boto”/“encantado” as these pink dolphins are known locally in Brazil. The folk-tales are that the dolphins can turn to handsome men on land and they charm and kidnap beautiful young women to their illusory underwater land.
Perhaps it was to make the actually grim reality seem less dangerous than the unknowns of traveling. Oh you think beatings, rapings, our social madness are bad? You're too weak for the woods then, lemme tell you about Wolves and Witches. Oho! Don't even consider leaving your shitty human society by the water, it has.. dolphins!
I mean, the wilds do offer some very real threats, but, not as fantastically grim as they were represented.. just an idle thought.
do you think fish which study humans go like, that's the most common human we've seen in these parts, with pale skin. ooh, we haven't seen the aborigines in a while, we think they might have gone extict
I saw them in the amazon a few years ago - traveling out of Leticia Colombia. There were a lot but the water was muddy so they were hard to get photos or even video. I only got a photo of the pink hump.
Amazon trips out of Leticia are cheap, so worth it. Also I'm sure they can live in fresh and brackish water. They are the only dolphins that can swivel their neck to dig for food in the mud. The pink wasn't bright like these photos but definitely pink. A trip to remember. Mine was less than $1000 a person for a week. Living next to an indigenous group with one of their members as our guide. We played with released rehab monkeys, went piranha fishing, shot dart guns and allowed many poisonous insects to crawl on us. A true cultural mind-fuck. It's bucket list level entertainment.
They really are that pink! The sea spray is white; it isn't a tint. Sunsets and sunrises will color the sky purple, and river dolphins come in many shades. You can see in the video the splotching, and how grey the other one is.
amazon river dolphin..? naturally pink? hmm.. likely same "natural" pink that some of the "pink" flamingos have.. both are eating the same stuff that dyes them pink (plumes on flamingos and skin on dolphins).. with different diet they turn more "normal" colored. (pink flamingos turned white in captivity when eating different food)
Not meccesarily since the dolphins are eating fairly large fish...not shrimp. There's also the added fact that the water already so murky that being colorless or pink is better then wasting energy on pigment.
They eat things rich in carotines, some algae and shrimp
The dolphines eat mostly fish and their colour isn't a result of their diet like the other comment claims.
They live in murky water and don't need a lot of skin pigment against sunburn, same as humans. The pink is actually just their blood showing through the pale skin
There are pink dolphins, but this one is swimming with another dolphin that’s not pink and has a strip of the other dolphin’s coloring on it, so if this is real I’m guessing this dolphin is pink due to lack of pigment. But now I’m gonna check the link someone else commented saying that these are info pacific humpback dolphins
Not AI, at least one of them, if not both, live on the North Shore of the New Orleans area are commonly seen around Slidell and in Lake Ponchitrain. I've never been lucky enough to see them unfortunately, but they are well known over there. I think it's a Mom and baby dolphin, well the baby would be grown up now.
Like is it a species ? Do they have different colours there is like one which has dark stripes and they are swimming with a dark dolphin too so that means they can be different colours so it's like albinism or something?
They're literally getting wiped out because the fishermen in the lakes get upset when they eat "their" fish in the lakes. There are fuck up doc. on how dumb the fucking locals are and how nasty they kill them. The uneducated will always destroy before pivot to something sustainable because their just to fucking dumb. Beautiful creature surrounded by violent dumb fucks equals nature's sadness.
I imagine being pink is one of the reasons it's so rare. Dolphins aren't pushovers but pink is a very bright and noticable coloring in the ocean compared to the usual greys.
Pretty sure that’s the Amazon river dolphin. The pink color is actually natural, not some trick of the light or pollution. It comes from blood vessels near the skin, and they can get even pinker from scars over time. Wild how something like that exists and most people never see one in real life.
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All i could think was wow… lisa frank wasn’t lying
She wasn’t lying, but apparently she was not kind. Sorta sad when you see all the art created in her name.
Source?
It was her husband who was a dick and ran her company into the ground. Not her.
😆 love it
Perfect comment! 😂
Damn. True. The best comments on Reddit are GIF’s 🤔
Bruh
Who knew Finizen and Palafin really existed in its native form. Gotta catch them all!!!!
Hahaha, what's this?
A lot of local mythology surrounds the “boto”/“encantado” as these pink dolphins are known locally in Brazil. The folk-tales are that the dolphins can turn to handsome men on land and they charm and kidnap beautiful young women to their illusory underwater land.
So they’re like animorph kidnapper rapist things? According to legend, of course. Allegedly.
Yeah. As we know many of these old folk tales are pretty Grimm
Perhaps it was to make the actually grim reality seem less dangerous than the unknowns of traveling. Oh you think beatings, rapings, our social madness are bad? You're too weak for the woods then, lemme tell you about Wolves and Witches. Oho! Don't even consider leaving your shitty human society by the water, it has.. dolphins!
I mean, the wilds do offer some very real threats, but, not as fantastically grim as they were represented.. just an idle thought.
lol! Made Grimm pretty!😂 W reply!
Don’t rehash that for me
These are actually indo pacific humpback dolphins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pacific_humpback_dolphin
Thank you! I was wondering what a pink dolphin was doing in the ocean
That’s actually hilarious. Hawaiian slang word for penis is Boto 😭😭
Same in filipino (and other local languages) 💀
I was just about to write that lol
So like the little mermaid but opposite?
Yeah, lmao. 😆
Good to see a gender swap. Normally its beautiful women trapping men. Mermaids, sirens, skin walkers.
Please take me to their underwater land! Im sick of going to work in the morning!
The person who started this myth was definitely the person doing said crimes
I can honestly say that I learned something new today. What a beautiful animal
do you think fish which study humans go like, that's the most common human we've seen in these parts, with pale skin. ooh, we haven't seen the aborigines in a while, we think they might have gone extict
I saw them in the amazon a few years ago - traveling out of Leticia Colombia. There were a lot but the water was muddy so they were hard to get photos or even video. I only got a photo of the pink hump. Amazon trips out of Leticia are cheap, so worth it. Also I'm sure they can live in fresh and brackish water. They are the only dolphins that can swivel their neck to dig for food in the mud. The pink wasn't bright like these photos but definitely pink. A trip to remember. Mine was less than $1000 a person for a week. Living next to an indigenous group with one of their members as our guide. We played with released rehab monkeys, went piranha fishing, shot dart guns and allowed many poisonous insects to crawl on us. A true cultural mind-fuck. It's bucket list level entertainment.
I swear to God if someone brings up the dolphins are irredeemable rapists up here
And the sky is naturally purple here too?
You’ve never seen the sky purple?
yea they aren't this vividly pink, it's a filter that makes everything more red tinted
https://uk.whales.org/whales-dolphins/species-guide/amazon-river-dolphin/
They really are that pink! The sea spray is white; it isn't a tint. Sunsets and sunrises will color the sky purple, and river dolphins come in many shades. You can see in the video the splotching, and how grey the other one is.
Well that's disappointing
Idk about how pink these dolphins really are, but have you seriously never seen a purple sky?
r/reallifeshinies
Came to say^
Lisa Frank, is that you?
The Glinda of the Seas
Amazon River Dolphin? Iirc?
yep, they're called "boto-cor-de-rosa" here
Cool!
amazon river dolphin..? naturally pink? hmm.. likely same "natural" pink that some of the "pink" flamingos have.. both are eating the same stuff that dyes them pink (plumes on flamingos and skin on dolphins).. with different diet they turn more "normal" colored. (pink flamingos turned white in captivity when eating different food)
Not meccesarily since the dolphins are eating fairly large fish...not shrimp. There's also the added fact that the water already so murky that being colorless or pink is better then wasting energy on pigment.
Aren’t flamingos eating krill?
They eat things rich in carotines, some algae and shrimp
The dolphines eat mostly fish and their colour isn't a result of their diet like the other comment claims.
They live in murky water and don't need a lot of skin pigment against sunburn, same as humans. The pink is actually just their blood showing through the pale skin
I always thought they were pretty and wanted to swim with them. But they live in the same water as pirañas. I’ve seen those movies. No thank you.
Omg the calico looking one 🥺 him so beautiful
Ooh. A shiny pokemon.
Now to find the pink sheep.
Pressing those is how we get Pepto Bismol
This is so incredible wow
The Vernias dolphin
I’ve seen these while traveling down/up the Amazon River. They are becoming scarcer though.
A strawberry dolphin
AI or not AI?
This video is at minimum manipulated with filters, it might be AI.
However, the pink dolphin does exist, it's just pale pink. Pictures here:
https://uk.whales.org/whales-dolphins/species-guide/amazon-river-dolphin/
There are pink dolphins, but this one is swimming with another dolphin that’s not pink and has a strip of the other dolphin’s coloring on it, so if this is real I’m guessing this dolphin is pink due to lack of pigment. But now I’m gonna check the link someone else commented saying that these are info pacific humpback dolphins
I can't be the only one who thinks this video is likely AI-generated?
Pink dolphins do exist, but they don't look this saturated? Also, the movement of the dolphins feels odd and unnatural.
They are so pretty!!
Wow! That’s beautiful 😀
Omfg I did know pink dolphins existed 🩷
I want 4
Its like finding a pink sheep in Minecraft
Holy crap! I honestly didn’t even know that these existed. They’re beautiful!
Wow, I'm so lucky to see pink.👍
Whoa this is beautiful 😎
I can’t believe it!!! 🩷😍🩷
W o w - that’s cool , I hope I get to see one , someday 🤞🏼
And its naturally pink what?
So beautiful.
Makes you wonder what it would taste like.
Sos yer mom
They're just girl dolphins
Shiny!
Looks like a dolphin burn victim.
shiny pokemon!
Color isn't naturally that bright so they may have somewhat altered it!
It’s it pink? Or do we just call it that because of brain function and lack of ability to perceive all wave lengths of light
That's a Libra if I ever saw one
Not AI, at least one of them, if not both, live on the North Shore of the New Orleans area are commonly seen around Slidell and in Lake Ponchitrain. I've never been lucky enough to see them unfortunately, but they are well known over there. I think it's a Mom and baby dolphin, well the baby would be grown up now.
I’ve seen these in the Amazon of Northern Bolivia
Amazon or yellow river ?
that dolphin pulled an SSR skin
They are in the Koh Samui area.
Hot dolphin!
I thought they were river Dolphin?
This is gonna become a weird filter or some video edit soon...
Aren’t those Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin?
🎵how many krill do you have to eat🎵
WAIT PINK DOLPHINS ARENT JUST IN RIVERS?!?! Omg I’m so happy
###That's Luffin.
A Telepathic Dolphin and a member of Time Patrol.
I thought they were albino and sunburned?
Thought this was r/lies for a sec
So beautiful
It's me Pettlefin!
I've seen one like this in the south of Thailand many years ago. I wonder if they're still around?
You went to Manaus ?
Shiny dolphin
Like is it a species ? Do they have different colours there is like one which has dark stripes and they are swimming with a dark dolphin too so that means they can be different colours so it's like albinism or something?
A shiny
She just got someone pregnant, she's going back to her natural habitat. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They're literally getting wiped out because the fishermen in the lakes get upset when they eat "their" fish in the lakes. There are fuck up doc. on how dumb the fucking locals are and how nasty they kill them. The uneducated will always destroy before pivot to something sustainable because their just to fucking dumb. Beautiful creature surrounded by violent dumb fucks equals nature's sadness.
A shiny dolphin
Looks yuck
Girl dolphins
omg it's luffin from the Doraemon movie
Stained by the blood of its enemies
Beautiful 🤩
PET
IT
It’s a Shiny!
Boto cor de rosa. They say these dolphins can impregnate women.
I imagine being pink is one of the reasons it's so rare. Dolphins aren't pushovers but pink is a very bright and noticable coloring in the ocean compared to the usual greys.
It's albino, not a different species.
Wow so they do exist
That’s a shiny Pokémon don’t lie to me
A shiny dolphin
The ‘ol pink dolphin
Does he eat shrimp?!
ohhh myyy gawdddddd it's a pink dolphin let's kill her and make a beautiful handbag of it's skin !!! so adorable 🥰
Wow! Incredible!
Hey pinky is that you ??
There is a 0.164% chance that it will spawn in the wild
How many shrimp do you have to eat to make your skin turn pink?
That's clearly Jeff the Landshark wearing his incognito dolphin skin
I have seen them in Hong Kong but they are not that pink. They are more white with a slight pink color.
Zara Larsson’s pet
vaporwave dolphin
Must've been eating those berries from the orange islands
Somebody call Lisa Frank stat
Pretty sure that’s the Amazon river dolphin. The pink color is actually natural, not some trick of the light or pollution. It comes from blood vessels near the skin, and they can get even pinker from scars over time. Wild how something like that exists and most people never see one in real life.
Wow. No wonder my favourite drink is called pink dolphin. Now I know where its name derived from.
It's because they eat a specific algea that makes their skin Pink. Same thing with flamingos
It’s a shiny!
You too can become a pink dolphin
it’s a shiny!!
Lisa Frank didn’t lie!
Michael Jackson dolphin! "Ow! Eeee-eeee-eeee!"
The tails are true!
Wow 🤯😍😍😍😍
A shiny Pokémon 😁
A shiny
That’s not the pink river dolphin from the Amazon right? Looks like this is in the ocean
That one doraemon movie:
Shiny
A shiny in the wild
I believe this is an albino dolphin… no?
Albino?
Woah...
I love a shiny animal
Looking for a married woman
Every 7 years old girl dream:
Looked like there was 2 of them.
Nah, he just SA 100 other fish and unlocked new skin.
Was playing Minecraft with my kids and they killed the pink sheep so I'm not trusting them around this guy
SHINY, THROW BALL!
Its actually just scars from fighting
Those appear to be pink bottlenose dolphins, which are as I understand it dolphins with albinism.
There is a species of freshwater dolphins in the Amazon that are naturally pink, but their snouts are longer with less pronounced dorsal fins.
Holy moly.
Ooh! It's a shiny!!! Catch it, catch it, catch it!!!
👍
the ocean keeps its strange rituals hidden…
Thats so cool Can't be to rare I seen two
Duh pink dolphin cloths
These gosh darn kids spray painting everything now days
Venezuela has them - The Orinoco River
It’s a shiny chat
wow that’s impressive
Where's the panther 🤔
What in the Minecraft
Awww they are so beautiful
😭🩷🩷
shit looks like its been skinned
It’s normal it just warmed up too much
Good luck to those who see it
Aesop
Pokemon fans are losing their minds over this I believe
Here in Brazil it is called "comedor de casada"