Lotsa ppl love that book! And wouldn't you be an a-HAB instead of an a-HOLE?
I'm the total wildlife geek that can tell you the NAME of the whale in the pic. It's definitely a humpback because no other whale species has pectoral fins anywhere near that long, so if this shot was taken off Australia it's gotta be Migaloo. There are some albino and high-white-marked babies showing up in the population that hangs around Australia part of the year, but Migaloo is the only
adult white humpback in that group so far.
Much less is known about the life and times of the other white humpback adult, Willow, because she hangs out off the coast of Norway where it's harder to get a look from land and more dangerous to be out on the water most of the year.
As far as I'm aware, those are the only two confirmed all-white adult humpback whales in the world. I think Migaloo is an albino (pink eyes) but they don't have good enough pics of Willow yet to determine albino vs. leucistic (dark eyes). There's an orca in a non-migratory Russian coastal population that's believed to be a leucistic; his nickname is Iceberg (gender verified by dorsal fin shape) and instead of black-and-white he's tan-and-white. I've personally seen with my own eyes a wild black-billed magpie with exactly the same kind of leucism in the county where I live, but I wasn't able to get a pic of it
.