{"id":4123,"date":"2019-12-16T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2020-02-08T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T12:01:37","slug":"facts-about-beluga-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/facts-about-beluga-whales","title":{"rendered":"A Close Look At Beluga Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Name Beluga comes from a Russian phrase meaning \u2018white one\u2019 .<\/li><li>Found mostly in the Arctic Ocean, there are thought to be around 150,000 Beluga Whales in the world.<\/li><li>Beluga whales are very sociable and live in groups called pods.<\/li><li>A single pod can consist of hundreds of wales<\/li><li>They are often referred to as \u2018the canary of the sea\u2019 as they are noticeably vocal, making clicks, grunts, chirps and whistles as they communicate with each other.<\/li><li>An adult beluga whale is from 13 to 20 feet in length, the females are usually smaller.<\/li><li>An adult beluga whale can live for up to 50 years.<\/li><li>A beluga whale can weigh up to 3000 pounds <\/li><li>About 40% of their bodyweight is blubber, which helps them to stay warm and preserve energy in the icy water.<\/li><li>They can dive as deep as 1000 metres <\/li><li>They can remain underwater for up to fifteen minutes before surfacing to breathe.<\/li><li>Their white colour allows them to hide from predators (orcas and polar bears) by blending in with the floating ice in their natural environment.<\/li><li>They do not have a dorsal fin, which makes swimming, and hunting under the ice easier.<\/li><li>When they are born, they are a grey\/brown colour and don\u2019t become fully white until they reach around 13 years old.<\/li><li>The pronounced lump on their heads is called the \u2018melon\u2019. It is thought to account for their ability to pick up and interpret sound waves.<\/li><li>Technically referred to as \u2018echolocation\u2019, picking up and interpreting these sound waves allows them to locate holes in the ice, find prey and evade predators<\/li><li>Unlike most whales, the beluga\u2019s vertebrae are not fused. This means the whales have unusually flexible necks and can turn their heads in all directions.<\/li><li>Their closest physiological relative is the Narwhal<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildfoottravel.com\/destinations\/arctic\">Check out our expedition cruises to the arctic here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Name Beluga comes from a Russian phrase meaning \u2018white one\u2019 . Found mostly in the Arctic Ocean, there are thought to be around 150,000 Beluga Whales in the world. Beluga whales are very sociable and live in groups called pods. A single pod can consist of hundreds of wales They are often referred to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,244,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arctic","category-journal","category-wildlife-arctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildfoottravel.websitepro.hosting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}