White Orca
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 11th, 2008
Media accounts of the sighting of a rare, white killer whale off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands is causing waves of excitement among researchers and whale enthusiasts.
The whale, photographed by scientists on a U.S. scientific vessel, is a large, healthy male, said John Durban, research biologist with the Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.
There have been two recent sightings of white whales and scientists are scrambling to figure out if this is the same orca.
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Loren, thanks for the great article. I can’t wait to hear if this is the same animal or if there are several in the area.
so orca’s aren’t racist?
they ARE smarter than humans!
*ack*
ban the apostrophe! even we who know the rule’s sometimes break’s them!
A white orca! Cool!
Cool!!!
Let’s name it ISHMAEL!!!
Maybe MOBY???
Pretty cool I wanna see one I live a bit too far away though (uk).
Looks more sort of light grey or brown than white in the close-up photo (so presumably not an albino, but some other colour phase). Still cool tho.
You can really see how much bigger its fin is than those of the females around it - obviously a *big* male.
Man!…That’s one pale whale!!!….(groan…)
Don`t tell the Japanese, they may want to make sushi out of the creature
Albino ?