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by: cbp210 Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Sep 30, '14 11:40am  
@littlegoo
 
I thought you might like this story as it was sent to me. This is truly a great find. Enjoy the video
 
fishgame.com/2014/09 /scientists-capture- footage-white-orca-r are-one-sightin
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Littlegoo Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 9 years ago   Oct 1, '14 8:31am  
Thanks! that is really cool. On FB, I belong to about a dozen pro-cetacean conservation/anti-captivity groups that share any news/stories having to do with dolphins and orcas (well, orcas are technically dolphins, but you know what I mean).
 
Sadly, Russia is allowing a certain number of wild orcas from their waters to be caught for the display industry, and if any of these evil d*ck-heads find this orca, he/she is doomed for a miserable life in captivity. Especially this little one they just spotted, as it's a juvenile.
 
Did you know that there was once a partially white (Albino) orca held in captivity back in the 70's? Her name was Chimo and she was kept at Sealand in Victoria B.C. (the same aquarium that originally kept Tillikum, where he and the other orcas were responsible for killing a trainer). Sadly, and predictably, she didn't live very long. On you tube, search albino orca, or Chimo and you can find some pretty cool videos of her. It was pretty interesting, she was caught along with several of her pod-mates, and they all had some kind of physical abnormality; her being white, and there was one with a really large chin (he ended up at the now defunct marine park that used to be in Galveston) one with a pointy nose, one with a bunch of scars. Possibly they were all rejects that left their own families and made their own.
 
www.orcahome.de/chim o.htm
 
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 1, '14 9:17am  
That was so cool!
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cbp210 Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Oct 1, '14 6:18pm  
Thanks for the info Littlegoo and yes I hope this orca does survive in the wild and remains free. the sea holds a lot of mysterious sea life and this albino orca is one of them. I am still waiting for the day when scientists or someone brings proof of the existence of the Megladon.
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 2, '14 7:45am  
Greedy people just want to get their hands on these rare, mysterious creatures so they can make money off of them. In Taiji, Japan last year, where they do the mass killings of dolphin and small whale pods, they found a rare white dolphin baby, killed it's family, and she is now just languishing in a dirty pool waiting for the highest bidder.
 
www.onegreenplanet.o rg/news/albino-dolph in-angel-living-in-h ell-at-taiji-wh
 
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cbp210 Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Oct 2, '14 8:32am  
That is very sad. I am not against people killing mammals for food source but I am against the unnecessary killing and this capturing of this rare dolphin to be sold to an unknown source.
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 2, '14 1:07pm  
$$ will always trump necessity. The plague of (in)humanity knows no limits.
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