Chimo (orca)

Chimo

Species	Orcinus orca
Sex	Female
Born	Unknown
Died	1972
Years active	1970–1972

Chimo (also designated T4) was a female orca with albinism captured from Peddar Bay in the Salish Sea in 1970 and exhibited at Sealand of the Pacific in Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada until her death in 1972. ^[1] Chimo was not the first albino orca spotted in the wild, but she is notable for being the first captured and closely studied. Chimo's probable mother was another orca by the name of Scarredjaw Cow (T3), captured along with Chimo. She died in 1972 from complications caused by Chédiak–Higashi syndrome.

Years before her capture, another white orca was spotted in what is suspected to be the same pod; this orca, named "Alice", was never captured and vanished in the 1960s.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2009, a fishing vessel off the Alaskan Peninsula spotted a healthy male killer whale who was almost completely white.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• Iceberg (orca)
• Tilikum (orca)
• List of individual cetaceans

References

1. Ford, John K.B.; Ellis, Graeme M. (1999). Transients: Mammal-hunting Killer Whales of British Columbia, Washington, and Southeastern Alaska. p. 20. Retrieved September 8, 2025.