At birth, beluga whales are five feet long, roughly 100 pounds ... FEEDING: Belugas mainly subsist on fish, but they also eat octopuses, squid, crabs, and snails, using echolocation to find prey. In ...

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 ...

When it comes to quirky animal behaviors, few are more charming than 2,000-pound beluga whales blowing delicate bubbles. But why do they do it? To find out, researchers spent eight years gathering ...

When a beluga approached their boat, one hunter would jump on the whale’s back and slip a lasso around its neck, like a high plains mustang. The other would then slide a floating stretcher under ...

Beluga whales, also known as ‘white whales’, are social and smart marine mammals that are well adapted to living in very cold waters. Their incredible echolocation abilities, however, make them ...

He has recently begun eating solid fish ... For instance, while beluga whales are considered a species of least concern by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the population ...