Say hello to Iceberg. Spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia, he is the first ever entirely white adult killer whale to be observed.
While there have been examples of white whales in the past — including one orca with a rare genetic condition that died in a Canadian aquarium in 1972 when it was young — nobody has ever observed a fully grown white orca before.
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Researchers off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia have photographed and filmed the only known mature male all-white Orca. They've nicknamed it 'Iceberg', the BBC reports: White whales of various species are occasionally seen;... Read Post
Scientists off the coast of Kamchatka have spotted the first confirmed white adult orca. The white killer whale appears to be healthy. The only white orcas seen before have been juveniles. The sightings were made during a research c... Read Post
Say hello to Iceberg. Spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia, he is the first ever entirely white adult killer whale to be observed. More » Read Post