Saturday, February 17, 2007

Doomed: the songstress of the deep


The numbers of beluga, the white whales of Alaska, have halved in 13 years.


1,000m

The depth of which belugas are capable of diving, though they spend the summer in shallow bays and estuaries and the winter under pack ice.


Beluga whales have lived for around 30 years in the wild.


Belugas are the only whales that can bend their neck


There are five main populations:

Bering

Chukchi

Okhotsk Seas

High Artic

west Greenland

Hudson Bay

James Bay

Gulf of St Lawrence