Alaskan Beluga Whale Calf
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Owner:
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liquidearth
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Released:
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
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Origin:
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Alaska, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In the hands of key-haeru.
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Fast Facts
Did you know Belugas are the only whale that can bend their neck! Also, Belugas shed their skin each summer by rubbing it on gravel or coarse sand bottoms. Pre-molt belugas are yellowish and scarred, but after molting, they're shiny white.
- Size and Color
Males: 11–15 ft.; up to 3,300 pounds. Females: up to 12 ft.; Up to 3,000 pounds. Dark gray at birth, blue gray as juveniles, white as adults.
- Diet
Schooling and anadromous fish including herring, capelin, smelt, cod, salmon, flatfish, sculpin, and eulachon
- Predators
Killer whales, polar bears, taken by humans for subsistence purposes
- Reproduction
Give birth to a single calf every 2–3 years
- Other names
White whale, belukha whale, sea canary.
- Habitat and Range: Coastal waters and estuaries in summer; pack ice in winter. North and West coast of Alaska, south into Bristol Bay. Isolated population of 600 to 1,100 in Cook Inlet.
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