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 ...

changes in the food supply, and the presence of killer whales, which are now moving into Hudson Bay as sea ice melts. Another major concern is the impact of these ecosystem changes on beluga ...

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 ...

Beluga whales are the only whales, other than narwhals ... “They just don’t have as much food as they used to,” Davey says. Salmon populations are down, and even though belugas are opportunistic ...

with the beluga having characteristics of both. Dolphins and belugas both fit into the category of toothed whales, as opposed to baleen whales that filter food out of water, like blue whales. Belugas ...