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A baby beluga whale born at the end of August is starting to shed its slate-colored skin for the more mature creamy-white covering, and the baby is a "she," aquarium staff have just announced.
I've been gaga for beluga whales ever since I was a little kid (along with probably every other 80s/90s kid who grew up listening to Raffi's "Baby Beluga" song). Turns out, though, baby belugas ...
A life-and-death drama has been playing out since Friday morning in the Shedd Aquarium’s Oceanarium as Puiji, a first-time beluga whale mother, has been trying to teach her newborn male to di… ...
The Georgia Aquarium revealed today that their Beluga whale is pregnant! According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, the 20-year-old whale named Maris is expected to give birth sometime in Spring 2015.
Shedd Aquarium’s baby beluga whale has a name More than 20,000 votes were cast in a weeklong campaign to select the name for the four-month-old calf born on July 3.
A baby beluga whale born at the end of August is starting to shed its slate-colored skin for the more mature creamy-white covering, and the baby is a "she," aquarium staff have just announced.
A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts.
It’s thought to be the first baby beluga rescue in the U.S., at least since federal record keeping began in 1972, she said. Other attempts resulted in calf deaths or in one case, the calf being ...
Mauyak’s was the first beluga whale pregnancy at the Shedd’s $41 million, state-of-the-art Oceanarium marine mammal pavilion, opened in 1991 with high hopes of becoming a beluga breeding center.
Shedd Aquarium welcomed a new resident Wednesday evening: a baby beluga whale born to 35-year-old mother, Naya!
The Georgia Aquarium revealed today that their Beluga whale is pregnant! According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, the 20-year-old whale named Maris is expected to give birth sometime in Spring 2015.