BELUGA WHALE
Delphinapterus leucas
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The beluga whale is a small, toothed whale that is white as an adult.
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Type: Mammal Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 35 to 50 years Size: 13 to 20 ft (4 to 6.1 m) Weight: 2,000 to 3, ...
Beluga whale populations have been overhunted to the point where they have been wiped out in some regions.
The beluga whale is known for its milky white skin. Young are gray or pinkish brown at birth but fade to white as they grow.
The beluga whale does not have a dorsal fin.
DIET:
Beluga whales rely on echolocation to find prey. They eat octopus, squid, crabs, snails and a variety of fish.
Beluga Whales are white in colour and are best known for their friendly-looking smile (which is actually the natural shape of their mouth). Baby beluga calves are born a grayish brown colour and turn white as they reach about 5 years of age.
Beluga whales exhibit a wide range of vocalizations including clicks, squeaks, whistles, squarks and a bell-like clang.
Length 15 feet (males); up to 14 feet (females)
Weight Adult males 3000 lbs.; females 2000 lbs
Lifespan 30+ years ...
Beluga whales face a number of environmental threats. Industrial run-off in the St. Lawrence River has resulted in high levels of PCBs, heavy metals, and other toxins in the water.
Beluga whale
Belugas come together in pods of hundreds and even thousands of individuals in the shallow waters of the arctic and sub-arctic seas. For insulation in these cold waters these whales have 10cm thick blubber and half their weight is fat.
Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)
The snow-white beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is one of the most distinctive of all cetaceans (a group that includes dolphins, whales... More 23 Images 7 Videos ...
Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) AKA White Whale
Population: Above 150,000 worldwide. Status. Near-Threatened Species.
Trends: Decreasing due to hunting, climate change and industrial activities.
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Beluga Whale, Vancouver aquarium, Canada
Photograph by Paul Mannix. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
Beluga Whale, Vancouver aquarium, Canada ...
Beluga whales have a life expectancy of 25-30 years.
Beluga whales are highly sociable creatures. Groups of males may number in the hundreds, but mothers with calves generally mix in slightly smaller groups.
Beluga whales inhabit the arctic and sub-arctic waters along the coast of Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway, and the Soviet Union. About 500 of them inhabit the waters of the St. Lawrence River. (Bonner, 1989) ...
BELUGA WHALE
The beluga is a small, white, toothed whale that lives mostly in cold, arctic waters.
BIGHORN SHEEP
A wild brown sheep from mountains and deserts of North America.
Beluga Whales - Received from Jonathan in Washington.
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One of two species of whale in the Monodontidae family, along with the Beluga whale, the narwhal males are distinguished by a characteristic long, straight, helical tusk extending from their upper left jaw.
Situated right off the Cook Inlet, this bed and breakfast offered brilliant views of eagles, ravens, beluga whales, and black-billed magpies.
This important region hosts many birds, like the threatened Stellar's Eider, and other rare animals including endangered beluga whales.
Only the Beluga whale has a neck like that, that enables it to turn its head. Unlike other dolphins found in Australia, the snubfin dolphin has no beak.
The Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is an Arctic species of cetacean with a body similar to that of a Beluga whale and Irrawaddy dolphin. It is rare creature found south of latitude 70°N.
Carnivore. Ringed seals, bearded seals, walrus, and beluga whales.
Predators and Threats
Humans; effects of pollution (PCB's), and limited feeding opportunities due to shorter periods of hard freeze of the sea ice, as a result of global warming.
The most ridiculous arguments are that Beluga Whales, seals and sea lions are depleting the fish stocks. We know who is doing it and it is us.
Support efforts to regulate the fishing industry.
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Polar bears also prey upon harp seals, as well as young walruses and beluga whales, narwhal, fish, and the remains of stranded whales and adult walrus.
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Clockwise from top left: sperm whale; humpback whale and calf; southern right whale; Maui's dolphin; sei whale; beluga whale ...
The Beluga is a large predator which feeds on other fish, turtles and seals. Beluga sturgeons are fish, entirely unrelated to mammalian beluga whales.
coastal waters, brackish estuaries and freshwater rivers in Australaisia and Southeast Asia. This endangered dolphin is pale gray and grows to lengths of 2m-2.75m. It has a round head and no beak and is occassionally mistaken for a beluga whale or a ...
Sperm whales, narwhals and beluga whales are toothed whales. Dolphins and porpoises are also toothed whales. The largest whale is the blue whale. It can grow to be more than 100 feet long! Thar She Blows! ...
information on archaeocetes from the southeastern United States. There is also a brief exhibit on fossil whales at the University of Oslo. Paleontologists might also visit the special exhibit on "Charlotte", a late Pleistocene fossil beluga whale ...
The beluga is hunted by the Eskimo for food and by commercial whalers for its hide, which is known as porpoise hide. Beluga is also the common name of the largest of the sturgeons. Beluga whales are classified in the phylum Chordata, ...
 See also: Beluga, Whale, Dolphin, Narwhal, Squid
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