beluga

Example Sentences

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The remaining 30 captive belugas at Canada's Marineland have nothing to do but wait.

From Barron's

Their cousins the toothed whales—sperm whales, belugas, dolphins, and the like—use ultrasonic sonar signals to detect prey, but baleen whales don't have that ability.

From Scientific American

She spent that time in a large pool at the park’s Friendship Cove separated from a pod of belugas.

From Seattle Times

So when researchers found that 27 percent of the dead belugas they examined in and around the St. Lawrence Estuary near Montreal between 1983 and 1999 had died of breast cancer, their discovery raised questions.

From Scientific American

The Russians are also suspected to have previously employed beluga whales to spy on U.S. allies.

From Washington Post