Dec. 23 (UPI) -- An Australian angler spotted what he initially thought to be a massive trout and ended up capturing video of something even stranger: a pink platypus.
Victoria resident Cody Stylianou said he was casting his line in Gippsland when he came across the unusually-colored mammal, which he dubbed Pinky.
"The bill and feet are super obviously pink," Stylianou told The Guardian. "When he did go a bit further into sunlit areas, he was easy to follow underwater, which is how I got so many videos of him surfacing."
He said the platypus stood out from the others of its species that he's spotted in the area.
"I've seen other platypus in the same river system, just regular colored ones," he said. "Probably about five to eight of them over the years, from memory. Normally, they just pop up at the top of the water and then disappear once they see me."
