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Binomial name. Delphinapterus leucas. ( Pallas, 1776) Beluga range. The beluga whale ( / bɪˈluːɡə /; [4] Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean. It is one of two members of the family Monodontidae, along with the narwhal, and the only member of the genus Delphinapterus.
Hvaldimir is a male [1] beluga whale that fishermen near Hammerfest in northern Norway noticed in April 2019 wearing a camera harness. After being freed from the harness, the whale remained in the area and appeared used to humans. Speculation that he had been trained by Russia as a spy whale led to his being dubbed Hvaldimir, a portmanteau of ...
Monodon. Delphinapterus. The cetacean family Monodontidae comprises two living whale species, the narwhal and the beluga whale and at least four extinct species, known from the fossil record. Beluga and Narwhal are native to coastal regions and pack ice around the Arctic Ocean. Both species are relatively small whales, between three and five ...
The August collection has a particular summer flavor to it -- a beluga whale spitting water on spectators during a heat wave at an outdoor aquarium in Japan, the Supermoon rising over Madrid, an ...
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Benny is a beluga whale ( Delphinapterus leucas) that made headlines in the United Kingdom in September 2018 after being sighted travelling towards London through the Thames Estuary. [1] Benny was sighted several times over the ensuing weeks after his discovery in the Estuary, and appears to be healthy despite appearing alone.
Beluga whale returns iPhone to thankful owner in wild video. Alex Lasker. Updated May 9, 2019 at 3:29 PM. Footage of a dutiful beluga whale returning an expensive gadget to its rightful human ...
Moby Dick ( Willi de Waal in the Netherlands) was a beluga, or white whale, that caused a sensation in 1966 along the Lower Rhine and then in all of Germany and the Netherlands. [1] It was named after the whale in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville . On May 18, 1966, a few Rhine skippers near Duisburg reported a white whale in the ...