Lawrence, to near collapse. Beluga feed on fish, crustaceans, and worms. The whale is related to the tusked “unicorn” whale known as the narwhal. The beluga is not related to the sturgeon of ...

Beluga whales use a wide range of communication sounds, including whistles, squeals, clucks, mews, chirps, trills and bell-like tones. In fact, they’re sometimes called ‘canaries of the sea’. These ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

During training sessions at a special weapons testing range ... a subset of the beluga population in the St. Lawrence estuary known as “solitary sociables”: whales separated from their ...

RANGE: Belugas have a circumpolar distribution ... MIGRATION: While some belugas are migratory, the Cook Inlet population remains in the same area all year. BREEDING: Female beluga whales become ...

This is larger than some whales—the beluga whale included ... Although international law protects the species across its entire range, illegal fishing persists. The IUCN believes only controlled ...

from the University of Manitoba, were conducting a beluga whale monitoring ... First documented sighting of a group of bowhead whales outside their typical range in Hudson Bay, Polar Biology ...