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Harry Baker

Extremely rare albino dolphin spotted in Africa, possibly for the 1st time ever

The albino bottlenose dolphin calf surfaces nect to an adult dolphin in South Africa's Algoa Bay. (Image credit: Lloyd Edwards/Raggy Charters)

Newlyweds were treated to an incredibly rare sight on their wedding day when the whale-watching vessel they were aboard encountered an albino dolphin calf — likely the first of its kind seen in Africa. 

The lucky couple, along with their family and friends, saw the unusually colored cetacean April 4 onboard a Raggy Charters vessel in Algoa Bay, a marine wildlife hotspot in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. Lloyd Edwards, boat captain and owner of Raggy Charters, was the first to spot the ghostly creature among a large pod of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus).

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