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 ...

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 are the only whales, other than narwhals ... “Because they have muscular control over their melon, they can create a wide range of clicks, whistles, squeals, chirps, and other ...

Although belugas commonly learn to imitate other species, this beluga whale was the first ever recorded giving up its own language in order to speak to its dolphin companions. A four-year-old ...

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 ...