I've been gaga for beluga whales ever since I was a little kid ... and Beethoven welcomed their own baby beluga into the Shedd family. After officially confirming the boy beluga's gender last ...

CHICAGO — The Shedd Aquarium announced that the baby beluga whale born last summer is a boy and they are holding a vote for his name. The newest member of the beluga pod has been spending his ...

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 ...

Beluga whales, also known as ‘white whales’, are social and ... This is the only other species in their family, Monodontidae. Narwhals are also an Arctic-adapted species, known for the distinctive ...

“They come to think of us as family,” he says ... the recruitment process. When a beluga approached their boat, one hunter would jump on the whale’s back and slip a lasso around its ...

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 ...

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 ...