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.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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 ?