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On 13 May 2021, two beluga whales were sighted in waters around Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Canada. One whale entered the Charlottetown Harbour and travelled up the Hillsborough River to Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island. As of 30 May the whale was still sighted in the area. [227] [228] In August 2022, a beluga was found on the river Seine ...
Kayavak was born on August 3, 1999, to a beluga named Immiayuk at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. She was the third calf born at the aquarium, and the first to survive. As part of a Shedd tradition, she was given an Inuit name. "Kayavak" means "singing game producing soft echoes". [2]
The caviar of a beluga sturgeon, the main reason for the massive overharvesting of this species. Beluga caviar is considered a delicacy worldwide. [24] The flesh of the beluga is not particularly renowned, but it is a hearty white meat similar to that of swordfish. Beluga caviar has long been scarce and expensive and the fish's endangered ...
Last week brought a huge new addition to Chicago’s historic Shedd Aquarium: a baby Beluga whale. Born to the aquarium’s female Beluga, Naya, the new calf and its mother are receiving round-the ...
Orcas also prey on larger species such as sperm whales, grey whales, humpback whales and minke whales. [ 84 ] [ 40 ] On three separate occasions in 2019 orcas were recorded to have killed blue whales off the south coast of Western Australia, including an estimated 18–22-meter (59–72 ft) individual. [ 89 ]
A barren tank with concrete walls and artificial rocks, housed in a South Korean mega mall, has been home to a female beluga whale for close to a decade.
Just another day at the office, naked deep-sea diving with beluga whales at the Arctic Circle. Natalia Avseenko, a 36-year-old Russian scientist, decided to test the hypothesis that belugas might ...
The pygmy right whale shares several characteristics with the right whales, with the exception of having a dorsal fin. Also, pygmy right whales' heads are no more than one quarter the size of their bodies, whereas the right whales' heads are about one-third the size of their bodies. [11] The pygmy right whale is the only extant member of its ...