Wow, Moby Dick - Quasimodo version

This is pretty cool, a white humpback (hunchback?) whale.  Albinism can occur in virtually any vertebrate the result of inheriting a defective recessive gene from each of two normal-appearing parents, a gene that does not produce a functional enzyme needed to produce melanin, a skin pigment.  Does it have pink eyes?  Of course, the Moby Dick of literary fame was a sperm whale.     

Got the Moby Dick lego set?

Be the first on your block to get the Moby Dick lego set! Both the free standing 3D Moby Dick and the mosaic mural of Ahab were created out of legos. Moby is fairly small for his species, only standing about 7 feet tall, but that's still one whole heck of a lot of white legos. This particular display was at the Sydney Aquarium in Darling Harbor and it sort of caught my fancy.