A sperm whale with the same rare colouring as the fictional Moby Dick has been spotted off the coast of Jamaica.
A video of the white whale was posted on Facebook Tuesday by SOS Dolfijn, a rescue organization for stranded whales and dolphins based in the Netherlands.
The distant, blurry video shows some of the whale’s white skin and vapour spouting from the whale’s blowhole as it surfaces.
SOS Dolfijn said the animal was about 10 metres long and identified it as a sperm whale — the same species as Moby Dick, the famed white whale from American writer Herman Melville’s 19th century novel.
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