There is a famous white whale called Moby dick. He wasin a story by American writer, Herman Melville. In this story a sailor called captain Ahab spends a lot of time trying to find and kill Moby duck
Sadly there are not many kinds of whales left. Men have killed them for thousands of years food and other things. However there are now laws to stop people killing most kinds of whales so perhaps there will be more of them in the years to come