The migration of thousands of belugas: the wonderful video goes around the world

    The migration of thousands of belugas: the wonderful video goes around the world

    Thousands of beluga whales migrate from the Arctic in search of warmer waters - we can all see them on the Beluga Whale Live Cam

    Water show: Thousands of belugas migrate from the Arctic in search of warmer waters. The wonder has been captured and we can all see it on the Beluga Whale Live Cam. The migration will go on for weeks in Canadian waters.





    A completely natural and long-awaited phenomenon: the annual migration of over 57.000 belugas which, as always, in this period seek warmth in the north of Manitoba, a Canadian province that borders Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west.

    The main cameras were installed at the intersection of the Churchill River and Hudson Bay, an area crossed in the summer by about two-thirds of the world's total beluga population, especially with a typical lifespan of about 70 years.

    Belugas are social creatures who likes to make friends. We saw it just recently with a heartbreaking video of a specimen locked up in an aquarium approaching a white whale-shaped baby doll.

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    While other animals, such as killer whales and African elephants, form social bonds around closely related family members, belugas have been found to interact with both close relatives and just distant relatives, if not entirely unrelated, to times forming bonds that last several decades.

    The video, therefore, that shows many nearby specimens swimming together does nothing but increase the dismay at the thought that individuals are forced to be alone (or almost) in aquariums for their entire existence.

    Experts will keep an eye on the migration because their numbers and patterns provide clues to the health of thearctic ecosystem, in precarious balance also because of us.


    Sources of reference: Beluga Whale Live Cam / Explore Oceans / Youtube


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