Moby Dick is a character in a well known book by author Herman Melville.
I remember reading about Moby Dick when I was young and how much I loved the story because I've always loved whales. I remember Moby Dick being this dark, ferocious whale and feeling chills whenever the crew encountered him in the book. Moby Dick is probably best known as the evil giant white whale.So with that in mind I found it really cool that this albino humpback was sighted! Perhaps Melville had a sighting of an albino whale back in the day and was inspired to write his book.
Migaloo (the albino whale's name)
A presumably albino humpback whale that travels up and down the east coast of Australia has become famous in the local media, on account of its extremely rare all-white appearance. Migaloo is the only known all-white humpback whale in the world. First sighted in 1991 and believed to be 3–5 years old at that time, Migaloo is a word for "white fella" from one of the languages of the Aboriginals, the Indigenous Australians. Speculation about Migaloo's sex was proved he is a male. Recent close up pictures have shown Migaloo to have skin cancer and/or skin cysts as a result of his lack of protection from the sun.
In 2006, a white calf was spotted with a normal humpback mother in Byron Bay, New South Wales.
