Absolutely stunning. 🥰 Leave them alone…!
That dolphin looks like he did some time and was ticking away the days.
Let’s all enjoy them I’m their natural environment ♥️
The orcas were spotted while on a whale-watching tour between the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Kunashir.
An employee of the Gojiraiwa-Kanko tour business, one of the two orcas was older and had noticeably darker skin, and the other was younger and had clear scratch scars going down its back.
She said that the adult whale had been sighted for the first time roughly two years earlier, whereas the younger whale was only recently found.
Two white orcas have never before been spotted off the coast of Japan.
Leucism rather than “albinism” has been found in the orcas. This is due to the fact that they weren’t completely pigment-free.
That explains both why the orcas that were spotted near to Japan still had the white patches that generally surround an orca’s chin and eyes and why the eyes themselves are still black.
As the scar tissue appears to have healed in a darker tone, it may provide some light on the scarring that runs down the side of the younger animal.
Scientists have discovered at least five white orcas and whales that are still living, despite the fact that they were once thought to be myths since they were so rare.
Because the remaining animals have fewer partners to select from as the population declines, a species’ genetic diversity declines, which is seen as an indication that the species is in [jeo.pardy].
This includes unusual [genetic disorders] that make it difficult for an animal to survive in the wild and pose a [th.reat] to hasten the [ext.inction] of the species.
Legend has it that they are the protectors of the sea and would return when the earth needed protecting. Looks like it’s about that time.
Let’s just hope they don’t end up in Seaworld, an aquarium, or someone’s exhibition. 🙏🙏🙏
