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You can say that again! Right whales (not to be confused with the Beluga whale, which is also nicknamed 'white whale') are an ...

Baby boy beluga — his current moniker — is slowly being introduced to the rest of Shedd's pod of eight whales. Aquarium members are voting on options for the calf's name. In the wild ...

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 the same name, which has been ...

And yet a single beluga managed to make his voice go ... Belugas typically travel in pods of approximately 25 whales, led by a dominant male but bound by close ties between mothers and their ...

Beluga whales are very social animals and can show great curiosity towards humans. They usually live in groups of five to 25 individuals but can congregate in mega-pods of up to a thousand animals.

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 ...