Whale-Watchers Spot Two Rare White Orcas Off the Coast of Japan
A group of Japanese whale-watchers was able to spot two rare white orcas swimming off the coast of Hokkaido. It is one of the country’s northern-most islands, over the weekend. During a whale-watching tour on July 24 in the Kunashirskiy Strait, a 20-mile stretch of water between the northern islands of Hokkaido and Kunashir, they spotted.
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As said by Mai, an employee of the Gojiraiwa-Kanko tour company, one of the pair is older with slightly darker skin while the other is younger and having visible scratch marks on its back. She said that the older whale was first appeared around two years ago. But it is the first time she has seen the younger animal. And this is the first time they saw them together.