Don't Tell Ahab: All-White Killer Whale Spotted In Wild
This is Iceberg, an all-white killer whale recently spotted with the rest of his pod off the coast of Russia. How nobody harpooned him to mount and display in their trophy room is beyond me. Jk jk, I cried during Free Willy too. And speaking of freeing willy *going for zipper* "Don't do it, GW -- remember what happened last time." Haha, sometimes I forget I'm not always working from home. *staring down granny* THE SHOW'S OVER, WRINKLES.
Hit the jump for one more shot of Iceberg with his crew.
Thanks to Julie and Call Me Ishmael, who saw a guy on a whale watching cruise jump overboard and try to perform the kind of tricks you see at Sea World but got brutally mauled and eventually eaten instead.
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