White Humpback Whale Calf Surfaces Near Australia, Relation To Migaloo Considered

09/29/2011 03:47 pm ET | Updated Nov 29, 2011




"The calf, being a silly pup, when he popped his head out and saw the boat I think that excited his interest and he started to come towards us, but his mother didn't like that too much so she got him away, but we managed to capture all the photos," Fewings told the Townsville Bulletin.



"There is another couple of purely white whales and then there's a very very low number of animals that are a sort of blotchy color," Mark Read, an official with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, told News 24.




While this whale appears quite content playing in the waters, many whales are threatened around the world. Whaling is still practiced by some countries, and Japan recently announced it caught 195 whales in the Pacific Ocean "under a research program opposed by activists who call it commercial whaling in disguise," reports the Associated Press.

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