Beluga calf in Chicago is meeting the aquarium's pod and will soon be named
CHICAGO (AP) — Charlie Jacobsma slapped the surface of a pool enclosure at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium and scanned the water for ...
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Shedd Solves Mysteries of Baby Beluga’s Sex and Parentage, Now the Young Whale Needs a Name
Mom is 35-year-old Naya, but there are two mature males in Shedd’s pod. DNA testing revealed that Beethoven, the oldest male ...
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Ocean Park in hot water
said she would point out to other conservation bodies that Ocean Park is funding research on beluga whales in the Okhotsk Sea. The theme park confirmed that it had been funding Russian research on ...
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Why Was the Beluga Sturgeon Banned in the U.S.?
Although the beluga sturgeon shares its name with the more famous beluga whale, the two species are unrelated. “Beluga” comes from the Russian word “belaya,” which means white. So ...
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Marineland euthanizes 7-year-old beluga after medical struggles
Marineland says it has euthanized a seven-year-old beluga whale after a long battle with several different medical conditions. It is the 18th beluga to die at the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist ...