A group of whale watchers spotted a rare white killer whale off the coast of California and filmed it with a drone. The marine mammal, which has been assigned catalog number CA216C1 by the California Killer Whale Project, is also known by the nickname “Frosty.”
The unusually colored, four-year-old whale, whose gender is not yet known, was sighted with its mother and other killer whales while hunting sea lions and an elephant seal, the Monterey Bay Whale Watch recently reported on Facebook (see below).
The very special ‘super rare’ orca suffers from leucism (a so-called defect mutation in which the skin cannot produce the pigment melanin; pay attention) or from the Chediak-Higashi syndrome, which results in the rare white color. said it deviates from the usual black and white of the species.
The latter has previously been documented in killer whales, “but we cannot say with 100 percent certainty which case applies to ‘Frosty,'” says the post (see above). Drone footage was captured of “Frosty” and the other marine mammals (see video above).
Animals can grow up to eight meters long
Killer whales (also called killer whales or killer whales, note) are considered the rulers of the oceans. The animals can grow up to eight meters long and weigh around 5.5 tonnes and feed mainly on fish and seals, but sometimes also hunt other whales.
Source: Krone
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