Three-year-old named Frosty, which has rare genetic condition, captured by whale-watching group sailing from Newport Beach
The calf is completely white except for a greyish dorsal fin and head. The tour group named it “Frosty”, due to its “unusually light skin…[the] result of a rare genetic condition”.
Passengers on the whale-watching tour were able to watch the orcas for more than two hours as they swam up the coastline until sunset, boat captain Delaney Trowbridge told Fox 5. The pod approached the boat a few times, he said.to Newsweek, Whale and Dolphin Conservation spokesperson Danny Groves explained that white orcas are not outcast from their pods as some people may think.
“Albinism is an almost complete lack of pigment … There is also leucism, which is what affects Frosty, a partial pigment loss through a development glitch in skin cells. Leucism can therefore have developmental as well as genetic causes.”
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