FfFfFfFF 58,386 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 It was a balmy Friday morning in June when Domenic Biagini, whale-watching tour captain steered his boat out of San Diego's Mission Bay with six clients on board. “We just saw a pearly white, 15-foot animal that didn’t have a dorsal fin,” he recalls her saying over the radio. An hour later, LaPointe radioed Biagini again, insisting that what she had seen was a beluga. “Nobody's going to believe us if we don't have undeniable proof,” Lapointe told Biagini, urging him to help document what she saw. “Undeniably, unmistakably, a beluga whale popped up in front of me,” he says. Beluga whales typically restrict themselves to the Arctic and sub-Arctic waters off the coasts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, Scandinavia, and Alaska. But the beluga that Biagini filmed on June 26 was some 2,500 miles from the nearest known beluga population, in Alaska, and it was all alone. It’s the farthest south this species has ever been officially recorded. It's not known what inspired this creature to set off on such an unexpected journey. Maybe “it decided to go on a road trip and it's extra curious, or it could be sick and disoriented,” says Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a research associate at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Based on Biagini’s drone footage, however, she and other experts say the animal looks to have good body condition. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/07/lone-beluga-appears-off-san-diego-in-unprecedented-sighting/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracious Gaga 17,163 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 how old is the whale?? ♥ Kindness Police. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerstiletto 185 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Interesting. I wonder if we'll ever know why it's so far out of it's usual areas. Dance! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weed 79,082 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Makes me sad tbh I hope they can make it back to their family/other Belugas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsbrenda 2,983 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 26 minutes ago, killerstiletto said: Interesting. I wonder if we'll ever know why it's so far out of it's usual areas. I mean, we know Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeaarrllaalloo 3,962 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Historic Beluga sounds like an insult for an old, plus-sized person. "By FaR ThE MoSt IrRiTatInG PoSteR oN "ChRoMaTiCa" DisCusSion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 58,386 Posted July 12, 2020 Author Share Posted July 12, 2020 5 hours ago, Gracious Gaga said: how old is the whale?? They don't mention the age explicitly but based on the fact that they say is 15-foot long and beluga whales are at least 18-foot in full size, it's probably a younger specimen (less than 10 years old) https://seaworld.org/animals/all-about/beluga-whales/characteristics/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Ricky 9,089 Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Looks like CGI lol. Crossfit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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