#beluga — Public Fediverse posts
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🎵 In 1984-85, thousands of belugas trapped in #Arctic pack #ice off #Russia’s #Chukchi Peninsula faced starvation.
The #icebreaker Moskva crushed an escape channel, playing #classical #music to coax the herd forward. Roughly 2,000 survived and about 1,000 died, though the music’s role stayed unverified.
#beluga #whales #marine #rescue #animals #behavior #ocean #conservation #engineering #history #sovietunion #ussr #wildlife #marinebiology #biology #science
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Operation Beluga — or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving
Credit: Library of Congress collection. The Soviet Union now belongs largely to memory and history books, and many…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #beluga #Chukchi #icebreaker #Moskva #Russia #Science #Whales
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Whatever the #mirrortest tells us, #beluga #whales pass it
If the result holds up, belugas join a remarkably short list. The mirror self-recognition test has been passed, with varying degrees of confidence, by humans (age two+), a handful of great apes (chimps, bonobos, orangutans, and—somewhat contentiously—gorillas), Asian elephants, bottlenose dolphins, probably magpies, possibly orcas, and, if you can believe it, a cleaner wrasse. That’s it. No dogs, cats, or monkeys.
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✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨
Major skills!
Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!
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Happy #SkyproSunday from Naluark🐳 Just a #beluga whale looking for calmer seas✨
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Via @your.local.federal.agent on Instagram:
Beluga whale strange facts
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Whatever the mirror test tells us, #beluga whales pass it - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/belugas-may-pass-the-mirror-test-but-does-the-mirror-test-still-pass/ so don't imprison them in horrendous tanks
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🐋🪞 In a new study, two #beluga #whales at a #NewYork #aquarium showed possible self-recognition in a mirror – one even pressing a mark behind her ear against the reflective surface.
The results place belugas alongside #chimpanzees, #dolphins, #elephants, and maybe #magpies on a short list of species that pass. But scientists disagree on what the test actually proves, and the debate itself raises deeper questions about animal #consciousness.
#science #marinebiology #biology #animals #zoology #ocean #psychology #neurobiology #ethology
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Le marsouin blanc, ou le béluga en plusieurs temps
🔸Traces et ancrages du Québec maritime
https://premierelecture.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/2026/05/21/le-marsouin-blanc-ou-le-beluga-en-plusieurs-temps/
#bibliothèque #AnQ #Québec #exposition #marsoin #béluga #nature #animal #histoire #patrimoine #eau #fleuve #mer #image #photo #documentation #référence -
How many runways can you see for Beluga airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/pabg/en #belugaairport #airport #beluga #usa #pabg #bvu #aviation #avgeek vl
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Photo of the Day 6th February 1996.
[…]https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/02/06/photo-of-the-day-6th-february-1996/
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#Beluga stops aquarium smoker with a splash -
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Got to see the Beluga flying over Penny Lane too, on my way back from the estate agents
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‘It’s heartbreaking’: how 30 captive beluga whales have become pawns in row over animal cruelty https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/26/canada-captive-beluga-whales
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Beluga whales still held in captivity at the now closed Artic Cove exhibit, at #Marineland, in Niagara Falls, #Canada. The remaining 30 captive belugas at Canada’s Marineland have nothing to do but wait. The reportedly broke former tourist attraction is closed to visitors, so the whales circle their decaying pools, while the park’s owners spar with the government over what happens next
Photograph: Daphne Lemelin/AFP/Getty Images
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Niagara Falls, #Canada
An aerial view of beluga whales at the now closed arctic cove exhibit at #Marineland. The whales still circle the decaying pools at the allegedly insolvent attraction, while the park’s owners, who have threatened to euthanise the belugas, fight the government over what happens next.Photograph: Daphne Lemelin/AFP/Getty
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#Beluga trainer fired by #Marineland speaks out
Nineteen #belugas, one #dolphin and one #killerwhale have died at park since 2019, according to a database created by The Canadian Press based on internal documents and official statements.
Marineland’s threat to e#uthanize all 30 of its remaining belugas if it doesn’t receive emergency funding is a “repulsive” tactic that uses #whales as leverage.
We need to get them out,” Burgess said of the last captive whales in #Canada. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/we-need-to-get-them-out-beluga-trainer-fired-by-marineland-speaks-out/
