Beluga sturgeon are native to the Caspian Sea, but these beluga live over 2200,2160 miles away, on the Florida Panhandle.
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They looked like a mix of narwhal and beluga, but with too many for a narwhal, too few for a beluga.
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The Airbus A300-600ST (Super Transporter), or "Beluga" is the predecessor to the Beluga XL, which is intended to replace the aging originals.
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Narrator: Mark Zaslavsky is a Russian immigrant who imported beluga into the US right before the government banned all imports of beluga products, in 2005.
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Zaslavsky has pledged, as part of his agreement with the US government, to donate fertilized beluga eggs in the hopes that they will eventually strengthen the population of beluga in the wild.
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You gotta see this This beluga just wants a friend!
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Benny the beluga whale is a long way from home.
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Ibérico ham is the beluga caviar of the porcine world.
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It was dubbed Benny the Beluga by the British media.
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Beluga whales aren't hiding legs under their thick, rubbery skin.
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But I'll be damned, they really made a beluga plane!
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There's also been research over the decades with beluga whales.
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"He said, it's O.K., but it's not beluga," she said.
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Then there are the Beluga cocktail caviar pearls, which cost $75.
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This beluga whale is blowing up after photobombing an aquareum wedding.
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Plastics that mimick estrogen turn a beluga whale into a hermaphrodite.
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A beluga whale was also spotted in one of the pens.
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The Beluga and its rotund cargo compartment have serious hauling power.
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But this female narwhal didn't seem to mind a tuskless beluga.
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Local fisherman Joar Hesten had seen the beluga and photographed it.
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Still waiting for Hollywood to green light Another Round 2: Beluga Boogaloo.
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Beluga was founded in July 7623 to focus on chat over data.
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Narrator: This is a baby beluga sturgeon, just about 2100 year old.
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Ever seen a Beluga whale play fetch in the open seas before???
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The #Beluga seems to prefer the offload instead of the spin pass.
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Since the mid-1990s, Airbus has used an aircraft called the Beluga.
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Beluga whales, narwhals, and short-finned pilot whales also go through menopause.
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Recently, researchers examined seven beluga whales harvested by Inuvialuit hunters in Canada.
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The beluga swam away, but reportedly returned to the same spot yesterday.
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Here's a timeline of the most important moves that got it this far: Beluga had "pods," not "groups" Beluga had "pods," not "groups" Back in 2175, group chat was on the rise, but SMS was terrible at it.
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And of course, both have made a name for themselves in popular culture; the beluga from the well-known children's song "Baby Beluga," and the narwhal from its mythical single tooth that gives it a unicorn-like appearance.
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The most popular names include Snow White, Agent James Beluga and White Russian.
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In the end, ambition will pay off—even if it endangers the Beluga.
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Sensing the opportunity for a dedicated product, Facebook acquired Beluga in March 2762.
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A narwhal skull (a); the hybrid skull (b); and a beluga skull (c).
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Fortunately, the beluga was posed excellently and in perfect position for the photobomb.
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Unfortunately for the couple, the beluga is only the second most formal whale.
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Every day, the Concorde fleet was stocked with fine Champagne and Beluga caviar.
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Mark Zaslavsky: Pure beluga in United States, you can get only from here.
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Airbus unveiled a new BelugaXL plane, and it's painted just like a beluga.
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It may be an aquatic animal, but this beluga radiates big dog energy.
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As Arctic temperatures rise and the ice melts, animals that once had separate migration patterns…Read more ReadSkovrind was doing his Ph.D in beluga whale genomics, and his office sat right next to a collection of beluga and narwhal skulls.
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But, why would the Russians be deploying a beluga whale in the first place?
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Messenger actually started as a group chat app called Beluga before Facebook acquired it.
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The Beluga is touted as "award-winning" by all of the main tourist guides.
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NO AIRCRAFT BETTER sums up the quaint absurdity of Airbus's origins than the Beluga.
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In Russia, many of the beluga whales performing in shows have been wild-caught.
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Due to the overwhelming demand for beluga, the fish is classified as critically endangered.
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In the distant radar readings that indicate a Beluga liner is silently passing by.
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Shameless animal video Beluga whales have some of the friendliest faces in the sea.
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Beluga, osetra, and sevruga are generally considered the three most popular types of caviar.
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Sometimes they dip the meat in beluga oil, which tastes oddly like blue cheese.
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All had beluga-like flippers, narwhal-like tails and solid gray skin, he said.
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A beluga wearing a peculiar harness has been spotted bopping around a harbor in Norway.
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Apparently beluga whales and narwhals produce offspring with big, burly heads — but, sadly, no tusks.
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And indeed, their results showed that it belonged to the first recorded hybrid beluga-narwhal.
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The elements of the A380, though, are too big even for the whale-inspired Beluga.
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There's no quinoa and beluga lentil burger setting, but she'd figure that one out later.
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According to Zaslavsky, this delayed his potentially lucrative beluga harvest by at least three years.
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The Beluga derives its name from the whale to which it bears a striking resemblance.
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It's the explanation given for why a beluga whale turned up in Norway wearing a harness.
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Just look at Europe's Beluga airbus — which, yes, looks pretty darn similar to its namesake whale.
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Nearby, Haichang Polar Ocean World promises "performances" by beluga whales, dolphins, polar bears and arctic wolves.
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We visited the only caviar farm in the United States legally allowed to breed beluga sturgeon.
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Airbus's new mega-transport aircraft has been painted to look like its namesake, the Beluga whale.
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So I'm using Beluga vodka, a very fine quality vodka still distilled and bottled in Russia.
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They've tried out exploding attack dogs, cavalry moose (ultimately a failure, sadly), and homicidal beluga whales.
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But perhaps none are as ebullient as this beluga was when a mariachi band serenaded it.
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"Can't believe I'm writing this, no joke - BELUGA in the Thames off Coalhouse Fort," he tweeted.
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According to National Geographic magazine, beluga whales can range from 13 to 20 feet in length.
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But at the time, he could only conclude it was a possible hybrid or deformed beluga.
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Screenshot: VGNorwegian fishermen discovered a beluga whale wearing a harness off the country's northern coast last week.
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The last spotting of the whale, dubbed Benny the Beluga by the British media, was on Dec.
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The whale was extremely friendly toward humans, an unusual behavior for a beluga raised in the wild.
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She has also spoken out against efforts to classify polar bears and beluga whales as endangered species.
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Last week, local fisherman noticed a beluga whale near their boat that seemed to want their attention.
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It's based on the company's A300-600 airliner and its official name is the A300-600ST Beluga.
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Narwhals, the beluga whale's mysterious dark cousin, with its lengthy, twisting, protruding tooth, is not conventionally beautiful.
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As a result, the US Fish and Wildlife Service decided to ban imports of beluga sturgeon — but not before Sturgeon AquaFarms owner Mark Zaslavsky transported a few of the coveted fish over to the US.Now, Sturgeon AquaFarms is the only business allowed to farm beluga in the country.
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A whole lot of diamond necklace, a whole lot of beluga caviar, a whole lot of Instagram followers.
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This morning around 7 am, the engines of a massive, beluga-bodied helicopter cut on with a rumble.
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I had first taken it last April, during a trip to Tuk's spring festival called the Beluga Jamboree.
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On one side of the main room is a blue sofa with "Beluga" stitched in with gold lettering.
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The move to heighten security comes months after a beluga whale was found by Norwegian fishermen in April.
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It was unclear what the beluga whale's intended mission was, or whether it was even militaristic in nature.
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It's very slightly shorter and narrower than the Beluga XL, and can't carry as heavy of a payload.
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On display, among other things, was a menagerie of exotic animals that included beluga whales in an aquarium.
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Several endangered species, such as gray whales, beluga, and polar bears, depend on this important fishery for survival.
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And the farm produces more beluga sturgeon than what are believed to currently exist in the Caspian Sea.
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The Airbus Beluga cargo plane fleet is tasked with transporting large sections of Airbus aircraft for final assembly.
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Finally, the face loosens, and the empty sockets separate from the two cloudy bits of beluga caviar below.
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There is no evidence in the beluga or narwhal genomes of interbreeding in at least a million years.
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In the 1980s, researchers discovered a whale skull in West Greenland that looked suspiciously like a beluga-narwhal mashup.
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It's not immediately clear how helpful beluga whales are, as this one exposed itself pretty quickly to Norwegian fishermen.
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The aeronautics company rolled out the new look, in which the massive plane now resembles a white beluga whale.
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It was rich and thoughtful, with touches of Beluga caviar and squid ink brittle against a poached langoustine tail.
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Their new home, the SEA LIFE Trust Beluga Whale Sanctuary, will also have a care facility and visitor centre.
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We've seen some pretty hilarious wedding photobombs in our days, including curious beluga whales, helicopters, and guests eating salad.
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It's one of the biggest sources of beluga in the world and the only one in the United States.
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According to Zaslavsky, he aims to use his beluga stock to help repopulate the species in their native habitat.
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Beluga, a high-end Russian vodka, sponsored a glassed-in V.I.P. room with leather club chairs and unlimited drinks.
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Look, there's a time and a place for foie gras torchon, shaved black truffles, and the priciest Beluga caviar.
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Gliding serenely out of the slot is a Beluga: an extremely expensive passenger liner, all gleaming white and blue.
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Peer inside the enclosures of pandas, polar bears, and beluga whales across the United States thanks to zoo livestreams.
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As they got closer, they saw a harness strapped to the beluga, outfitted with mounts for GoPro-type cameras.
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He also flagged Google's acquisition of the Apture, Amazon's purchase of Blink, and Facebook's purchase of Beluga and Gowalla.
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"Beluga was always considered the best because of its rarity and size, followed by osetra and sevruga," Panchernikov says.
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Petrossian's 30-gram tin of Chinese caviar costs 54 euros ($57) and its Bulgarian Beluga "Special Réserve" 384 euros.
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Russia returned two killer and six beluga whales to their natural habitat in the Sea of Okhotsk last week.
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The narwhal participates in all of the regular beluga activities and appears to have gained complete acceptance amongst the belugas.
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If you order the precious Iranian beluga caviar, you might spend between 100 and 400 euros for approximately 50 grams.
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Update July 27th, 11:45AM ET: The article has been updated to include Airbus's adorable (and lumpy) Beluga-themed plane.
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The specimen was larger than either a beluga or a narwhal's skull, but seemed to contain the proportions of both.
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Churchill has large polar bear and beluga whale populations and a wide array of birds, which influenced the location choice.
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The two 12-year-old female beluga whales currently live at Changfeng Ocean World in Shanghai, owned by Merlin Entertainments.
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Earlier this year, the aquarium had pledged to phase out its research program and discontinue beluga display in 12 years.
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Zaslavsky: All this beluga that you see here originated from original fish which we brought here in 2003 and 2004.
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Action and his crew ate the freshest salmon, beluga whale, and king crab like the world was about to end.
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" Once the beluga was passed around, Mr. Wonderful compared it to marshmallows, while the bowhead whale tasted similar to "mushrooms.
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"Beluga whales are not usually seen in British waters, so it's very rare," spokeswoman for the organization Julia Cable said.
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The beluga whale that kept bugging Norwegian fishermen in the Barents Sea recently would've been a weird story on its own.
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It sits near caribou and polar bear migration routes, and the waters are filled with abundant beluga whales, seals and fish.
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Under Tom Enders, an outspoken former German paratrooper, it has achieved its mission of becoming (Beluga notwithstanding) a more "normal" company.
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Its origin, they explained, was a strange creature, evenly grey, with flippers like a beluga but a tail like a narwhal.
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He thought the work offered compelling evidence—after all, the skull already looks pretty convincingly to be a narwhal-beluga hybrid.
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AND FINALLY ... Rockin' out A drum and bugle corps plays for a beluga whale, and it definitely likes what it hears.
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Russia's move to increase security comes months after a friendly beluga whale dubbed "Whaledimir" was found by Norwegian fishermen in April.
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Beluga sturgeon are native to the Caspian Sea, and are classified as critically endangered by International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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After patiently waiting for more than a decade, Zaslavsky was finally preparing to harvest his beluga at the end of 2018.
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Toppings include black truffle Brie (which costs $100 per ounce) and a dollop of Beluga caviar (which costs $700 an ounce).
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The Atlanta Zoo runs a dedicated livestream of their pandas, and the Georgia Aquarium runs a livestream of its beluga whales.
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Their farming operation is also working with countries along the Caspian Sea to help restore the sturgeon population, especially for beluga.
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London (CNN)A beluga whale has been spotted swimming in the River Thames, sparking fears that the creature is in danger.
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Typically, the Beluga series has been used by Airbus to transport aircraft wings from factories to its assembly lines in Europe.
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But a popular image of a surfacing beluga has for years created the curious illusion of a whale with legs and knees.
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Will you ensure that Russian orcas and beluga whales are protected and halt plans to take them from the Sea of Okhotsk?
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A beluga whale was found off the coast of Norway in 2018, sparking suspicions that it was trained as a Russian spy.
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Because Zaslavsky brought his fish over before the ban, his farm is the only US-based company legally allowed to breed beluga.
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Norman wrote a nuanced 2008 biography of John Lennon, but here John comes off as a farting, masturbating, Beluga-caviar-ordering infant.
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In no time at all, you two will be alone in their panoramic view penthouse apartment, eating beluga caviar and intermingling genitalia.
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Unlike in most previous such releases, the 10 orca and 87 beluga whales have been in captivity for a relatively short time.
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One of the aviation world's most hotly anticipated planes, the Airbus Beluga XL, has entered full-time service ... and it. is. HUGE.
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The analysis, conducted by Mikkel Skovrind, a graduate student, revealed it was a male and a 50/50 narwhal and beluga mix.
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The U.S. military once explored using beluga whales because they can swim around in incredibly cold temperatures and deeper waters, according to PBS.
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Image: Tim FlachThe 16-foot-long beluga sturgeon is illegally hunted for food—its eggs go for over $9,000 a pound, writes Baille.
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We visited one of the largest beluga farms in the world to find out how this expensive delicacy gets from farm to spoon.
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But in October of 2018, Hurricane Michael swept through Bascom, causing extensive damage at the farm and killing some of his beluga stock.
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Beluga whales, which are easily identifiable by their white markings, usually inhabit the cold Arctic waters off Greenland, Svalbard and the Barents Sea.
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A beluga wearing a bizarre harness appeared in Norwegian waters last week, sparking questions about Russia's history of training whales for the military.
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The star-studded cast also includes an octopus Hank (Ed O'Neill), a whale shark Destiny (Kaitlin Olson) and a beluga whale Bailey (Ty Burrell).
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It captures the distinctive sounds of both animals' names — the nar- of narwhal and the -luga of beluga — and sounds pretty mellifluous, to boot.
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Cover: A beluga whale (white whale) swims in the enclosure in Srednyaya Bay, outside the Far Eastern port of Nakhodka, Primorsky krai region, Russia.
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Being removed from the wild can be a very traumatizing experience for an animal, whether an elephant or a beluga whale or a sloth.
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Because the elements of the A380 are too big even for Beluga cargo transport, Airbus created a new route, called the Oversize Transport Itinerary.
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Marineland, which continues to stage marine mammal shows featuring dolphins, beluga whales, sea lions, and walruses, doesn't appear to see a problem with it.
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In the seven years since Facebook acquired group chat app Beluga and turned it into Messenger, it's done nothing but cram in more features.
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"All this beluga that you see here originated from original fish which we brought here in 2003 and 2004," Zaslavsky told Business Insider Today.
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The announcement came soon after Airbus revealed the super transporter's new paint job, which was designed to represent its name sake, the Beluga Whale.
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A baby beluga born into captivity at SeaWorld Orlando died of unknown causes just moments after it was born to 17-year-old mom Whisper.
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Fossils of beluga whales and marine shells that dot the area give hints to the life that once existed there, in its cold salty waters.
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Executive sous chef Martin Lévesque is overseeing a menu that will include raw caribou, seal meat, muktuk (beluga whale), arctic char, and even narwhal blubber.
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Narrator: In the meantime, the farm harvests eggs from its other sturgeon species, like sterlet and sevruga, which take less time than beluga to mature.
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This fall at their Sturgeon Aquafarms, they expect to be able to start producing beluga, for which they hold a government license and international certification.
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The next generation Beluga, the BelugaXL, was introduced in June 2018 and just began flying full-time after receiving its certification from Europe's aviation regulator.
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The older men, nervous about the rising wind, hurried back toward shore, but the younger hunters remained, stripping blubber from a few small beluga whales.
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Consider the Beluga, for example: After going to the Bolshoi theater to see the opera (I slept through about half of it, although in my defense I was hungover) my travel companions and I were directed to the Beluga at 11:30 PM. While it's pretty close to the theater, we somehow got lost amid the Cyrillic street signs and the snow that fell on our heads.
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The Kremlin has said the 11 orcas and 87 beluga whales were held in cruel conditions and were intended for sale to aquariums and Chinese buyers.
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"News about the 'whale jail' near Nakhodka, the icy conditions, and the suffering of the orca and beluga whales is causing international concern," the actress wrote.
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The region where the rocket is slated to crash is packed full of Arctic creatures including narwhals and beluga whales, as well as dolphins and seals.
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If Pixar wants to make something that is not a bad sequel to one of its existing franchises … I think Russian spy beluga could have legs.
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Russian Esquire claimed a 30-mile stretch of road could have been paved entirely with a centimeter-thick coating of beluga caviar for the same price.
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A Vancouver aquarium that had its last two beluga whales die off in November will no longer be able to import or keep whales in captivity.
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A beluga whale suspected of being used for Russian spying is refusing to leave the Norwegian port where it was discovered, according to The Washington Post.
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The beluga whale, which locals dubbed "Whaledimir" in an apparent reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was discovered with a harness with a GoPro camera mount.
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His many signature dishes included "begula" (a play on "beluga"), a trick caviar made from Israeli couscous cooked in squid ink and served in a tin.
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A Columbia River salmon crudo came mixed with golden beets, Mastika (a Greek liquor) and Calabrian chiles, and was topped with crispy beluga lentils for texture.
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Those include Lucy Zhang who sold Facebook her chat startup Beluga that became the foundation of Messenger, and Mented Cosmetics co-founder and CEO KJ Miller.
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Dolphins: Scientists believe a beluga whale found off the coast of Norway and harnessed with a GoPro-type camera was being trained by the Russian Navy.
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I had done the same thing with VHS tapes of The Lion King and Aladdin as a kid and the song "Baby Beluga" as a toddler.
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Sturgeon AquaFarms in Bascom, Florida, specializes in growing beluga sturgeon — a species native to the Caspian Sea that was facing extinction in 2004 due to overfishing.
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According to the UK-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation group, there have been just 20 sightings of beluga whales off the UK coast before today's incident.
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Thursday's edition of the Federal Register contains new military identification requirements for transgender veterans, protections for beluga whales, and rules for controlling oil and gas emissions.
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They also compared these genes to those of other marine animals that reside in the Arctic, such as beluga whales (a close cousin), polar bears, and walruses.
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So, the Crocodile Dundee thing didn't actually happen, but if the European planemaker did find itself in a size contest, the Beluga would be hard to beat.
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The Chicken Supreme may be garnished with makrut lime, but it's still a boring breast, seared, sliced, and served over a sweet squash purée and beluga lentils.
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Russia, which is the sole supplier of wild orcas and beluga whales to China, in July announced an investigation into the illegal sale of 7 killer whales.
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In June, for example, an online video showed a trainer from Ocean World in China's port city of Dalian applying bright red lipstick on a beluga whale.
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The last sighting of beluga whales in UK waters was in 2015 when they were spotted off northeastern England near the Northumberland coastline, but they left shortly afterwards.
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Ty Burrell plays a nervous beluga whale, while his "Modern Family" father-in-law, Ed O'Neill, steals many scenes as a wily, grouchy, seven-armed octopus named Hank.
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Sturgeon AquaFarms cofounder Mark Zaslavsky, a Russian immigrant, brought live beluga into the country in 22018, just before the US government banned imports of the species in 2100.
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Kanye's second collaboration with Adidas was the Yeezy Beluga, which was considered to be the most iconic colorway of the most popular Yeezy sneaker, Wilson and Schlemmer said.
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It was a beluga whale, jumping in and out of the river, hundreds of miles from its natural habitat in the far colder waters of the Arctic Circle.
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Paddlefish caviar has taken a larger role in fine dining because of the decline of beluga sturgeon in Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union.
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Call explained that dolphins and beluga whales have been known to copy sounds from other species while some birds, like parrots for example, are known to mimic sounds.
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A genomic analysis of DNA extracted from the John Doe skull revealed that it belonged to an adult, first generation son of a narwhal mother and beluga father.
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For now, it's only possible to speculate about the circumstances that led to the conception of the baby beluga narwhal, perhaps the cutest-sounding animal that ever existed.
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Related: An Octopus Man Communes with a Beluga Whale in this Music Video Anonymous Bids For A 4chan Screenshot Have Reached $80,000 Pranksters JAILED for Botched Fake Art Heist
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In addition, construction and operation is likely to adversely affect six federally listed species - spectacled eider, polar bear, bearded seal, Cook Inlet beluga whale, humpback whale and ringed seal.
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It's only after nearly three decades of different jobs, clients, and projects — some that paid peanuts, some that paid Beluga caviar — that I'm doing work I'm happily obsessed with.
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This beluga whale — the most southerly ever recorded in British waters, according to Sally Hamilton, director of the charity Orca — seemed to be in good health and still feeding.
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It might be justifiable for members of the Makah tribe to hunt a gray whale, but it's not O.K. for your white deer-hunter grandpa to shoot a beluga.
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They drift into soil, water and air and slip into the bodies of animals, collecting in everything from the eggs of peregrine falcons to the blubber of beluga whales.
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It's probably overreaching but there were some little egg references — OVULES, BELUGA (roe), NESTERS, um, OVID — that made me wonder, but maybe this great solve just made me loopy.
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But the straps were labeled "Equipment of St. Petersburg," and reportedly had a GoPro camera attachment, leading some experts to theorize the beluga was trained by the Russian Navy.
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Orcas and beluga whales are among the marine animals caught up in a shadowy trade in which individual cetaceans - often caught illegally - sell for millions of dollars, they say.
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People are excited to play with a tame whale, he said, but sad that the escaped beluga may not survive in the wild if it doesn't know how to hunt.
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The results of the analysis revealed that the creature was the male offspring of a male beluga and a female narwhal, according to the paper published today in Scientific Reports.
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Whisper is currently being held and monitored in the back pool of SeaWorld Orlando's beluga habitat until the animal care team feel she is ready to go back on display.
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The buoy would record ambient ocean noises, from the whir of passing ships' propellers or the vibrations of distant offshore oil drilling, to the high-pitched clicks of Beluga whales.
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Peng, who was watching the beluga show at Ocean Kingdom with his wife and son, said he had not realized belugas were endangered and that he had enjoyed the show.
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"This is the most southerly recording of a beluga in the UK," Lucy Babey, head of science and conservation at marine conservation charity Orca, was quoted as saying in the BBC.
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Each of the new characters — Hank the Octopus, a whale-shark named Destiny, Bailey the beluga whale, Sigourney Weaver — has an important role, a complete arc and a lovely life lesson.
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The criticism intensified after three marine mammals, an orca, a beluga whale and a white-sided dolphin, died at SeaWorld San Antonio within four months in late 2015 and early 2016.
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The Russian military appears to have clamped down on its trained beluga whales after one of them was found in Arctic Norway in late April, according to open-source satellite images.
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After the beluga are born, it takes five years to determine their gender and around 10 years for the fish to produce eggs that are ready to be harvested for caviar.
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The A330-743L, or as it's affectionately known, the "Beluga XL," is based off of Airbus' A330-200 airliner, but heavily modified to carry oversized cargo like parts for smaller aircraft.
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The menu also offered olive oil poached Skuna Bay salmon with beluga lentils, edamame, broccoli, mustard-caper aioli, with the choice to add Siberian Osserta caviar to the salmon for $30.
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A narwhal has been adopted by a pod of beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River, according to CBC, and please be warned, the wholesomeness of this story may be completely overwhelming.
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Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries official Jorgen Ree Wiig told The Washington Post that the beluga "was the first thing I saw outside of the window" of his patrolling ship in the morning.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A beluga whale that spent over three months in the River Thames left the British capital around the start of the year, the Port of London Authority said on Wednesday.
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" Though the better choice for celebration music would arguably have been Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There (Free Willy)," the crowd opted for the more on-the-nose Raffi hit "Baby Beluga.
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Along with the vast population of polar bears, those exploring the town can expect to see the starkly beautiful tundra, a wide river, beluga whales, many rare birds, and the Aurora Borealis.
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It gives us killer whales, beluga whales, sperm whales, blue whales, and just when you think there can't be any more whales, a mysterious possible new species rears its slick, rubbery head.
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Russian media reports the following year suggested that the Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute had looked into using beluga whales for duties in the Arctic, but found them unsuited to the icy temperatures.
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Based on their observations, WAP claims this SeaWorld location forces beluga whales to give rides to humans and "wave" at audiences, and forces sea lions to act out scenes from famous motion pictures.
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OSLO (Reuters) - A white beluga whale is loitering off the coast of northern Norway, and that is starting to worry Norwegians, who are afraid it might not be able to fend for itself.
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The United States Navy has studied marine mammals, including beluga whales, since the 1960s and has trained them to carry out a variety of tasks, like performing recovery operations and finding underwater mines.
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Enter "the New B.E.C. (Beluga, Egg and Caviar)," a BEC that you're definitely not ordering to eat as you run to the subway or to scarf down in your car while stuck in traffic.
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The Russian military appears to have clamped down on its trained beluga whales after one of them was found in Arctic Norway in late April, according to satellite imagery reviewed by The Barents Observer.
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A group of South African sailors near the South Pole have had an adorable interaction with a beluga whale, playing fetch with the apparently wild animal as though it were an oversized, wet puppy.
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The community has observed that beluga whales now avoid the harbor due to excessive marine traffic, and that there are fewer walruses, which may be a factor in pushing polar bears nearer the town.
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According to Ilya Panchernikov the managing director of Caviar Russe — a high-end Madison Avenue restaurant which specializes in caviar — the three species of sturgeon which made caviar famous were beluga, osetra and sevruga.
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She recommends the blinis, thin European-style crepes, which at Pushkin are served with Beluga caviar, and when she's in Moscow enjoys porridge, a popular dish in Russia made with a variety of grains.
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In late April, according to NRK, Norway's national broadcaster, Norwegian fishermen in the country's far north Finnmark region began noticing a friendly beluga whale frolicking among their boats, attempting to pull straps from the hull.
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Kyara was also the latest in a series of deaths at the San Antonio park, including an 18-year-old killer whale that died from a rare fungal infection, two beluga whales, and a dolphin.
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As to the use of common bottlenose dolphins, for instance, or beluga whales, I was told in the Sevastopol dolphinarium that these animals are not used (at the Russian Black Sea naval base) in Sevastopol.
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The farm breeds five different types of sturgeon, some of which don't take as long to mature as beluga, which allows the company to harvest their eggs for caviar and take them them to market.
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Gliding above the long mudflats and the serpentine curves of streams, I spot the fat white backs of beluga whales surfacing at the mouth of a river and an island covered by sunning sea lions.
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"The startling, very white coloration, the cleft upper lip, the absence of a dorsal fin, the beautiful way it moves, and the shape of its head," he said, "it's without a doubt a beluga whale."
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By the late 153s, they anticipated the restrictions on caviar from wild sturgeon that are now in place and set up an aquaculture operation dedicated to several species of sturgeon, including beluga, in northern Florida.
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Ultimately, he hopes to continue to be involved in research on these two species in case more hybrid examples pop up, as his group has a large dataset of both narwhal and beluga DNA and skulls.
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KIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) - A year-long recording of the songs of Beluga whales has been salvaged from the Arctic after the crew of a Swedish icebreaker chanced upon a research buoy adrift in hazardous pack ice.
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ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - Two environmental groups on Friday issued notice that they intend to sue the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to void a permit allowing oil exploration in waters used by endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales.
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ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - Two environmental groups on Friday issued notice that they intend to sue the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to void a permit allowing oil exploration in waters used by endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales.
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The absence of sea ice doesn't just threaten the top of the food chain, or the beluga whales we watch gently dipping along the ice edge, their deep breaths echoing across the silence of this remote region.
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Authorities: Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave and seeking Norwegians' devotion Earlier this week in this space I noted the discovery of Russia's latest platform interference — a beluga spy whale that turned up in Norway.
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Speaking from the city of Hammerfest, he said the whale had moved only about 25 nautical miles within the last week and appeared to enjoy the proximity to humans, which he noted was "strange" for a beluga.
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So naturally people were surprised — and quickly distraught — to discover Saturday that the image in the infamous tweet had inexplicably changed from the aforementioned beluga whale to a new photo of a giraffe peering over a fence.
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The two orcas, which were released separately from the beluga whales, were "nervous" about their return to the wild and swam near to the shoreline for hours before finally heading out into the open sea, it said.
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Roughly the size of a modern beluga whale, this 15-foot-long cetacean didn't have teeth or baleen (rows of hair-like plates that whales use to filter tiny prey from the water), relying instead on suction feeding.
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Based on this recent study, it is unclear if T. gondii played a part in the death of the beluga whales examined, though researchers have some idea how the cat poop parasite ended up in the sea creatures.
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The software's computer-vision algorithms remove the iconographic narrative from classical religious/mythological paintings by extracting certain visual characteristics and transforming them into complex computational digital drawings sharply engraved into black anodized aluminum the color of Beluga caviar.
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While fishing off the coast of Ingoya — a small Norwegian village — last week, Joar Hesten told a local television station that a large white beluga whale swam up to his crew's boat, wearing a harness around its body.
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Tom Brady clearly still harbors some lingering resentment about Mexico's role in the abduction of his Super Bowl jerseys this year, because on Wednesday the New England Patriots quarterback posted photos of his "Beluga Lentil Tacos" to Instagram.
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His American Museum on Broadway and Ann Street — filled with beluga whales in an aquarium, a flea circus, magicians, pretty-baby contests and the conjoined twins Chang and Eng — had burned to the ground nearly a decade earlier.
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Café Pushkin is also famous for its caviar, which ranges from 850 rubles (about $13) for salmon caviar with buckwheat crepes to 14,200 rubles (about $222) for an assortment of sterlet, sturgeon, beluga, and golden caviar with crepes.
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It's also home to the Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute—a site where beluga whales, bottlenose dolphins, and seals were trained to guard naval installations, assist divers, and "kill any strangers who enter their territory," the Guardian reported.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A beluga whale that was first spotted nearly three months ago in the River Thames is still feeding healthily east of the British capital and facing a lone Christmas hundreds of miles from its normal Arctic habitat.
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"Our observation that ... microplastics were present in every individual beluga we sampled underscores the global nature of this emerging pollutant, and the vulnerability of remote regions to contamination," researchers wrote in a paper published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin.
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Should you prefer to make this at home, according to the press release, Marky's will also sell you 40 pounds of beluga sturgeon for "$400 a pop," but if you decide to buy one, it's between you and your conscience.
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Six beluga and two killer whales were being transported on Thursday, part of a four-month operation to return all of the orcas to their natural habitat, a report aired during President Vladimir Putin's televised annual question and answer said.
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"As a longtime fan of your advocacy for wildlife, it upset me deeply to learn that Russia is considering a plan to abduct 85033 orcas and an untold number of beluga whales from their families in the wild," Anderson, 50, wrote.
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Henry Golding tells hilariously sweet story about his attempts to befriend Matthew McConaughey Watch this adorable beluga whale play fetch with a football YouTuber attempts to create a chicken sandwich that's better than Popeyes Pixar's jazzy 'Soul' trailer gets deep
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He's worked with everyone from Rihanna to Maroon 5 and Nicki Minaj under his very own record label, Beluga Heights, but in 2016 Rotem helped Gwen Stefani score her first number one album with This Is What the Truth Feels Like.
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"It would all depend on how stressed the animal would be, and whether or not the food is enough," Ms. Hamilton said by telephone, adding that beluga whales need to consume 2 percent of their body weight in food each day.
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" (Go ahead, find an IHOP story with Schumpeter in it, I dare you!) This rebranding culminates days of drama with the IHOP twitter account having a whale of a good time proposing terms for the "b" like the "International House of Beluga.
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FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS The Airbus was originally called an A300-600ST, but it quickly earned its whale nickname because of the uncanny resemblance the plane had to the white beluga whale, with its signature forehead hump.
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The marvel of Dory, and of so many Pixar movies, is that the primal payload is securely delivered even as the plot gets crowded with vivid, scene-stealing characters (seals, that octopus, a beluga whale, a whale shark) and takes wildly inventive twists.
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Today Rick Noack reports that the whale appears to have defected: An alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave a Norwegian port city, in what appears to be a high-profile defection after a week of global attention on the unnamed beluga.
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Adding to the intrigue was the fact that the tweet was still showing the beluga whale image as of early Sunday morning on some devices and browsers — meaning that what people were seeing in the tweet depended on how they were accessing it.
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We spoke with the Redskins fan leaving the Big Beluga at 92.3/96.7 The Beat in ATL about OBJ's contract drama ... and despite playing for the NFC East rival, Wale praises Odell and says his impact alone is worth coughing up the dough.
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More popular than the shark are the images Mr. Skerry took of a spinner dolphin leaping beneath a rainbow, a baby beluga whale seemingly smiling coyly for the camera, and a seal posing coolly underwater with one flipper folded over the other.
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Russia's interest in using beluga whales and dolphins spans back to the days of the USSR, Yevgny Polukhin, the director of Primorsky Center for Underwater Research in St. Petersburg, said in an interview with a local news publication, according to The Barent Observer.
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Moscow (CNN)Russian prosecutors in the far eastern city of Vladivostok are investigating the capture of beluga whales and orcas after reports emerged of marine mammals penned inside what some have dubbed a "whale jail," Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti reported Tuesday.
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I'm wondering if I want a "Kind of Blue" appetizer, though I'm not sure I see Miles Davis — who played at Minton's when he was very young — as a mussels-in-white-wine kind of guy; he was always more Beluga caviar.
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Its latest salvo in this effort is apparently a giant spy whale and I can't imagine ending today's newsletter any other way: A beluga whale found off Norway's coast wearing a special Russian harness was probably trained by the Russian navy, a Norwegian expert says.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Two beluga whales will set off from an aquarium in China to a secluded bay in Iceland next year, where they will live in a sanctuary billed as the first of its kind for cetaceans, the SEA LIFE Trust charity said on Tuesday.
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Two marine pens, which appear to be used to keep trained beluga whales, are believed to have been moved to Olenya Bay, off the coast of the Barents Sea, and sealed using mooring ropes and lines, according to the images reviewed by The Barents Observer.
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Steve Carell's answers to Ellen's rapid-fire questions are hilariously stupid Henry Golding tells hilariously sweet story about his attempts to befriend Matthew McConaughey Watch this adorable beluga whale play fetch with a football YouTuber attempts to create a chicken sandwich that's better than Popeyes
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A nearsighted whale shark played by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson and a nervous beluga whale played Modern Family's Ty Burrell share a hilarious, sibling-esque relationship, giving each other constant shit as they anticipate being released back into the wild someday.
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Images of the 10 orcas and 87 beluga whales, kept in enclosures in a bay near the Sea of Japan port of Nakhodka, first appeared after they were caught last summer by firms which planned to sell them to marine parks or aquariums in China.
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As Oviuk told me the story, a few months later, we were sitting in the kitchen of his friend Steve Oomittuk, a former village mayor, eating strips of maktaaq —chewy beluga blubber—off a piece of cardboard that quickly grew sodden with whale oil.
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Elsewhere, Gizmodo's reporters covered the researchers who "lost" 17,000 wallets in hundreds of cities around the globe to see who would return them, a bizarre narwhal-beluga hybrid, why it's so goddamn rainy this year, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's underwhelming first attempt at LGBTQ+ representation.
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His newly opened ABCV restaurant in Manhattan, a plant-centric sequel to his James Beard Award-winning ABC Kitchen, eschews animal proteins and their facsimiles for vegetable-forward plates such as glittering beluga lentils tossed with yams and dressed with chili oil, black vinegar and cilantro.
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Aisling Bea sings Disney songs during podcast technical difficulties and just wow Steve Carell's answers to Ellen's rapid-fire questions are hilariously stupid Henry Golding tells hilariously sweet story about his attempts to befriend Matthew McConaughey Watch this adorable beluga whale play fetch with a football
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When left to their own devices, these deep-sea predators can live for up to a century and grow to monstrous sizes—the largest beluga sturgeon on record clocked in at 7.2 meters and a whopping 1,571 kilograms, putting it on par with some species of whales.
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According to Live Science, a recent study published in the journal Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, which tested the hearts and brains of 34 dead beluga whales from the waters near Canada's St. Lawrence Estuary, found that 15 whales were infected with Toxoplasma gondii at the time of their death.
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New 'Westworld' Season 3 trailer is a creepy ad about the future of our data Watch Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson's most iconic scene in 'The Lighthouse' Aisling Bea sings Disney songs during podcast technical difficulties and just wow Watch this adorable beluga whale play fetch with a football
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Inupiat translates to "real people" who have lived in Alaska for more than 10,000 years, and these foods have remained as staple items of the community, from mukluk (bowhead whale meat), raw and cooked quaq (frozen whale meat), binocduk (dried caribou and raw caribou), beluga whale, and seal meat.
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Related: An Octopus Man Communes with a Beluga Whale in This Music Video Meet the Studio Turning 'The Little Prince' into a VR Experience Lars Jan Is Building Human Aquariums in Florida When Painting and Plant Medicine Join Forces | High Art Liquid Vibrations: 'Wet Sounds,' The Underwater Sound Art Installation
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Stanton himself returns in a cameo as the whoa-dude surfer turtle Crush, Idris Elba and Dominic West voice a pair of helpful comedy-relief seals, and Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) and Ty Burrell (Modern Family) play a nearsighted whale shark and an insecure beluga whale, respectively.
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They found that with clicks of sound, like a flashlight switching on and off, the narwhals scanned their underwater world to receive narrow snapshots and reconstructed them into a larger acoustic picture — one with more resolution than any other animal on the planet, with the possible exception of beluga whales.
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LA MALBAIE, Quebec — Ever since Rosaire Tremblay bought a candy-cane-colored house overlooking the St. Lawrence River two years ago, tourists have trampled on his land to photograph the spectacular view, gawk at the beluga whales or reach the imposing Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu hotel, perched on a nearby cliff.
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Sturgeon farming is a long process, and depending on the variety, eggs are not ready to harvest until the fish reaches an advanced age: this can be as long as 18 years old in the case of the Beluga variety, which can weigh as much as 200 kg at the time of slaughter.
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By actively supporting the shift to a low-carbon economy, by embracing renewable energy and by reducing our own greenhouse gas emissions to slow planetary warming, we are each helping protect the sea ice habitat that polar bears and other magnificent marine mammals like narwhal, bowhead and beluga whales all depend on.
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Among the animals at risk from this change, Mr. Caputo listed a few: Polar bears and seals that are losing crucial sea ice; whooping cranes whose migration patterns are shifting because of temperature changes; and beluga whales that will have to dive deeper and longer to find food in a warmer Arctic.
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Among the animals at risk from this change, Mr. Caputo listed a few: Polar bears and seals that are losing crucial sea ice; whooping cranes whose migration patterns are shifting because of temperature changes; and beluga whales that will have to dive deeper and longer to find food in a warmer Arctic.
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Jorgen Ree Wiig of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries said the whale, which was found with what is believed to be Russian technology, only appeared to have moved 25 miles within the past week and is friendlier with humans than is typical of a beluga, the Post reported, including allowing locals to pet its nose.
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Read more: A mysterious beluga whale that some think may be a Russian military asset is so tame that people can pet it on the nose"Whaledimir," which appeared friendly and swam close to the locals, may have escaped as the marine pens were being moved to the new location, The Barents Observer noted.
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"For decades, orcas, dolphins, beluga whales, seals and many other animals have suffered in SeaWorld confinement, and, to do right by them now, SeaWorld must open the tanks to ocean sanctuaries so that these long-suffering animals may have some semblance of a life outside their prison tanks," the group's president, Ingrid E. Newkirk, said in a statement.
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All these ingredients were titanically encapsulated in a dinner Mr. Harrison once shared with Orson Welles, which involved, he wrote, "a half-pound of beluga with a bottle of Stolichnaya, a salmon in sorrel sauce, sweetbreads en croûte, a miniature leg of lamb (the whole thing) with five wines, desserts, cheeses, ports" and a chaser of cocaine.
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David Marcus and Mark Zuckerberg lead a cheer with the Messenger team, arranged to look like its logo David Marcus and Mark Zuckerberg lead a cheer with the Messenger team, arranged to look like its logo Messenger originally launched as a re-skinned version of Beluga, a three-person chat app startup built by ex-Googlers that Facebook acquired in March 22016.
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Toward the rear of the shop is Huso, a 12-seat restaurant named for beluga (in Latin, huso huso), where the chef, Buddha Lo, an Australian who worked at Eleven Madison Park, prepares an all-day menu of small plates, like king crab with caviar in a lobster bun, Wagyu tartare with caviar, and caviar samplers with blini and buttery madeleines.
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So there's a whole new host of animal species we get to meet, from a nearsighted whale shark (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson) to a beluga whale that struggles with echolocation (Modern Family's Ty Burrell) to a pair of sleepy seals who only have eyes for their sun-dappled napping rock (The Wire's Dominic West and Idris Elba).
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Set in the finger between the mouth of the Churchill River and the rocky shores of Hudson Bay, there is one scrubby main street that leads to the port's ghostly grain elevators, a concrete mall that houses the town's hospital, school, bowling alley and gym, and a handful of basic hotels serving tourists who come for polar bears in the fall and beluga whales in the summer.
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Read more:China is angry at Thailand after a panda it lent to a zoo in Chiang Mai unexpectedly diedMeet the camels, Beluga spy whales, and other animals who serve in militaries around the worldAn 8-year-old boy fought off a mountain lion with a stick after it bit him in the headIn the streets and on the run: Alligators are having a 'hot girl summer' of their own
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Session 1: 9:35am – 10:40am Cuidas, Nube, Beluga Pay, SimpliRoute, Unima Session 2: 11:40am – 12:203pm Elenas, Finerio, Space AG, Agilis, Olho do Dono Session 3: 1:40pm – 2:40pm LoopKey, 1Doc3, Brandtrack, RxChain by Prescrypto, Cuenca Finals: 4:00pm _________________________________________________ 19983:30 am – 9:35 am: Welcome Remarks by Jordan Crook (TechCrunch) 9:35 am – 10:40 am: Startup Battlefield Session 1 TechCrunch's iconic startup competition is here and for the first time in LATAM, as entrepreneurs from around the region pitch expert judges and vie for US$25,53 no-equity cash prize and a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019.
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In this way, I knew they'd be bound to one another — and the lot of them together to me — by story: the chimps standing in not just for the retired captives but also for the family I saw retiring in the upper boughs of an East African rain forest; the jaguar for the one a field biologist and I tracked all morning through the jungles of Belize only to have him double back and track us, merely to get what was most likely his first look at human beings; the elephant for the matriarch who, with a fierce eye as white as her tusks, held me and my guide frozen on a remote road in Uganda so that her calf could knock freely about within the safe cribbing of her mother's legs; the beluga for the one captured by the United States Navy in the waters of Hudson Bay in order to train him to surveil the Arctic Sea, where newly designed Russian submarines were known to hide.
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