A Cook Inlet beluga whale calf and its mother are shown breaching the water in the Big Susitna River in Alaska in this photo taken in May 2023.

Beluga whales are highly social and vocal marine mammals. ... It is estimated that each ship passage will mask beluga communication at the study site for 1 hour and 50 minutes on average.

If a beluga was already swimming away from a ship, it wouldn’t change its heading, but the study shows that the whale would swim faster than average when a ship was within its hearing range.

The study focused on recordings of beluga whale calls from 2018 to 2019. “Until now, we did not have a quantified measure of masking by ship noise on Cook Inlet beluga communication.

A beluga whale is hard to mistake for a mermaid unless you're at sea for months, and it's the first thing you see. Here's how it happened.

Beluga whales are endangered in Alaska's Cook Inlet and Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. ... For years every spring and fall, I monitored their appearance at Ship Creek in downtown Anchorage ...

The beluga whale stranded in France’s River Seine for almost a week will be moved to a saltwater tank on Tuesday for checks and care, an organisation trying to rescue the animal said.. The ...

Beluga whales are sometimes called “canaries of the sea” because of their range of vocal sounds. (Photo by David Merron Photography/Getty Images) Click below to listen to the calls of beluga whales ...

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, many of the stranded whales, around 40 percent, had evidence of a direct human interaction with ship collision or entanglement in ...

Beluga, believed to be former spy whale, befriends community in Norway 04:28. ... Hvaldimir may have been killed by a ship strike, a OneWhale member said. Before his death, ...

A beluga whale named Qinu had an adorable reaction to Olivia Walsh and Gavin Hulberg's engagement at Georgia Aquarium on Dec. 18. 'Qinu’s behavior at the window was her own — she was not ...