In 2022 another sighting of a white humpback has been made. In October near the coast of Costa Rica a young white individual has been sighted and photographed with a non-white adult. The calf was spotted by a pilot flying over northwestern Costa Rica. This was the first sighting of a white humpback whale in the Eastern Pacific. This calf is hypopigmented, without a clear conclusion about the exact chromatic abnormality determining its white coloration.
