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.

True albinos will be completely white and have red eyes. Color is given by the red blood in vessels that are usually hidden behind the iris showing through. Instead, scientists believe that they have leucism – a range of conditions where animals produce some melanin. But either has noticeably whiter skin or skin that is white in patches. And this explains the reason that their eyes are still dark.