Sunday, November 18, 2012

White Southern Right Whale Calf

 2008



 2009  Cliff Path, Hermanus, South Africa


 2009  Cliff Path, Hermanus, South Africa


 2009  Cliff Path, Hermanus, South Africa



A rare albino Southern Right Whale calf, above, surfaces off the coast of the Valdez Peninsula in Argentina's Patagonia region September 13, 2010

www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/06/22/339091_tasmania-news.html

"I am not convinced this is the same animal.  Are there possibly more then one?  'Due to the predominance of white pigmentation it is considered an Albino.'  Why?  I didn't think a "predominance" of white is what made an animal an albino.  Why is it not considered "pie bald"  like a horse? 

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