SYDNEY - An extremely rare white humpback whale was spotted off the Australian coast on Tuesday migrating towards warmer tropical waters to mate. Oskar Peterson, who runs the Australian-based White Whale Research Centre, said a study by Southern Cross University in 2004, which managed to get skin samples from the whale, had shown Migaloo was male. Australia's east coast humpback population has been brought back from the brink of extinction following the halting of whaling in the early 1960s. I screamed 'You gorgeous whale, thank you for being here for us today'," Alison Reid, who saw Migaloo on a whale watching cruise, told national radio. He was seen and photographed off Byron Bay on Australia's east coast, heading north on his annual migration from Antarctica to warmer waters in Queensland state.

Source: Bangkok Post July 26, 2016 09:00 UTC