'Speckles' the piebald dolphin makes a splash as Australian first
Published Date: 2/5/2024
Source: phys.org
University of the Sunshine Coast researchers believe they have recorded one of the world's most unusually colored dolphins for the first time in Australia. With its patchy black-and-white coloring, the dolphin is one of only six cases in the world where there is photographic evidence a dolphin with the extremely rare skin condition piebaldism, and only the second to be documented in the southern hemisphere.