Tourists had the chance to see, off the coast of Alaska, an extremely rare white killer whale. According to specialists, it is not an albino whale it simply lacks pigments.
An all-white killer whale was seen swimming with two other adult cetaceans near a group of tourists off Kuiu Island in the southeastern state of Alaska in the United States.
They named it T’luk, which means “moon” in their native language, indicates the Standard daily.
Despite its white coloring, scholars don’t believe T’luk is an albino. It’s more likely to be white due to a lack of pigmentation, says Jared Towers, an Orca researcher at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, a Canadian government department responsible for policy development and implementation programs supporting Canada’s economic. They also assist with environmental scientific interests in their oceans and inland waters.
“It’s not quite pure white and it doesn’t have pink eyes that would indicate albinism,” he said.
White Orcas are very rare, with only two individuals currently alive and five or six documented off the coast of southeast Alaska in the past 80 years, according to the Standard news portal.
