Timor Tom

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Timor Tom is a legendary whale from the 19th century, referenced in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Dr. Lawrence Blair in his TV program Myths Magic and Monsters, suggests that Timor Tom was a gigantic albino Sperm Whale, who did not flee whalers, but attacked them and drowned many of them instead.