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Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay – Winnipeg Sun

by ahnationtalk on October 1, 202413 Views

Oct 01, 2024

ON HUDSON BAY (AP) — Playful large white beluga whales bring joy and healing to Hudson Bay. Their happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by the warming water melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food chain.

Loud and curious belugas swarm boats here, clicking, nudging and frolicking. At any given summer moment on the Churchill River that flows into the Hudson Bay, as many as 4,000 belugas can be up and down the waterway, surrounding vessels of all sizes. That makes it hard to find a place where you don’t see them, said whale biologist Valeria Vergara, senior scientist at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. It’s in their nature.

“The social butterflies of the whale world… You can see it in Churchill,” Vergara said.

Read More: https://winnipegsun.com/pmn/offering-a-dose-of-healing-curious-beluga-whales-frolic-in-a-warming-hudson-bay

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