A young photographer may have discovered a very rare whale.
Golden immediately recognized that the calf was extremely pale. The teenager has plenty of experience capturing whales and he had never seen one so white before.
“I was shocked. I didn’t know how to react or really believe it was one until I looked back on the footage and saw how white it was,” he says.Golden spotted the white whale in Batemans Bay, some 175 miles south of Sydney.White whales are very rare because the albinism gene is recessive and for a calf to be born albino both the mother and father must carry the gene — and even then there is only a 25 percent chance that the calf will display albinism.
“Given the size and the time, I would strongly suggest that it’s a newborn that’s only maybe just two or three days old,” Olaf Meynecke, a marine scientist from Griffith University tells“It doesn’t make it less exciting, it’s still really exciting to have such a small newborn out there.”Australia that the footage is “absolutely intriguing” and needs more investigation.
“It is very difficult to declare it as an albino whale, but I’d be interested to see more information about it,” says Dr Franklin.Australia’s east coast already has a famous albino humpback whale by the name of Migaloo. The famous white whale was first spotted in Byron Bay in 1991 when he was two years old and has been seen from time to time in the intervening years — he was last spotted in 2020.Have not been out to see the migration this winter yet. Such magnificent friendly creatures. Care for them.🥰🐳🐬🐳
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