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September 3, 2024 at 8:43 PM. A beluga whale that was suspected to be used as a Russian intelligence-gathering tool that became an oceanic celebrity was found dead Saturday. Hvaldimir the beluga ...
Hvaldimir. Hvaldimir (Norwegian pronunciation: [/ˈʋɑːl.dɪ.mɪr/]; c.2009[ 1 ][ 2 ] – 31 August 2024) was a male [ 3 ] beluga whale that fishermen near Hammerfest in northern Norway noticed in April 2019 allegedly wearing a camera harness. After being freed from the harness, the whale remained in the area and appeared used to humans.
An organization called Marine Mind said in a Facebook post it found the whale on Aug. 31 but wanted to "refrain from speculation" about Hvaldimir's death until the Veterinary Institute released ...
Initially named Walter the Whale, [144] [145] this orca was taken into captivity during the Yukon Harbor orca capture operation, which was the first planned, deliberate trapping of a large group of orcas (killer whales). 15 southern resident orcas were trapped by Ted Griffin and his Seattle Public Aquarium party on 15 February 1967, in Yukon ...
September 1, 2024 at 2:18 PM. A beluga whale suspected of having been trained as a spy by Russia has been found dead off the Norwegian coast. The body of the animal - nicknamed Hvaldimir - was ...
The Lamalerans hunt for several species of whales but catching sperm whales are preferable, while other whales, such as baleen whales, are considered taboo to hunt. [71] They caught five sperm whales in 1973; they averaged about 40 per year from the 1960s through the mid 1990s, 13 total from 2002 to 2006, 39 in 2007, [ 72 ] an average of 20 per ...
Russian 'spy whale' was shot, animal groups say. Tom McArthur - BBC News. September 4, 2024 at 12:36 PM. A beluga whale suspected of being a Russian spy found dead off the Norwegian coast was shot ...
The first live killer whale captured in Russia was an 18-foot (5.5 m)-long female estimated to be about six years old, captured off the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka district on September 26, 2003. She was transferred over 7,000 miles (11,000 km) to a facility owned by the Utrish Dolphinarium on the Black Sea , where she died in October 2003 ...