Real Moby Dick spotted. The very rare white whale, which Ahab had not managed to tame at the time, so much so as to cover the features of an unattainable goal throughout the novel, has been really sighted in the cold waters of Norway.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himReal Moby Dick spotted. La very rare white whale, that Ahab had not managed to tame at the time, so much so as to cover the features of an unattainable goal throughout the novel, has really been spotted in the cold waters of Norway.
Dan Fisher, a 32-year-old British naval engineer, was on a boat trip near the Svalbard islands, when he noticed this giant of the sea. He climbed the tree to get a better look and took pictures. The images were later published in the Daily Mail, while a short video on Youtube immortalizes the marine mammal as it emerges from the waters while swimming. in a herd of humpback whales.
The Moby Dick in flesh and blood probably owes its candid color to the leucism, a genetic peculiarity caused by the alteration of a gene that gives a white color to the fur or plumage of animals that normally have a different colored coat. It is a form of incomplete albinism, which affects several species of animals, including crocodiles and peacocks.
The event is extremely rare, even if, only last September, it made its return to the media all over the world Migaloo, the albino white whale first sighted in Australia in 1991, seen for the second time first near South Stradbroke Island and then in front of Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach, engaged in its migration from northern Queensland to the Antarctic.
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