Beluga Whales

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Beluga Whales

• By Zoe Wood

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Color

• Beluga whales are gray when theyre babies and
  white when theyre adults.

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Length

• The Beluga whale is one of the smallest species
  of whales. Adult Belugas are 13 to 20 feet long.

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Weight

• Beluga whales can weigh from 3,000 to 3,300
  pounds.

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Habitat

• Beluga whales are found in the Arctic and
  subarctic waters.

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Diet

• The belugas diet is small squid, crabs, clams,
  shrimp, sandworms, and fish. Young salmon is
  their favorite. They eat 50 60 pounds of food a
  day.

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How Long Do They Live

• Beluga whales can live from 35 50 years.

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Predators

• Their predators are orcas and polar bears.

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Toothed or Baleen

• Belugas have 10 teeth on either side of its upper
  or lower jaw.

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Body Parts

• The belugas body is thick and muscular. It has a
  round head and a narrow neck.

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Special Aptitudes

• They have a melon shaped forehead which can
  change its shape.
• They have no dorsal fin but a narrow ridge down
  their backs.
• They are called the
• sea canary because
• of their noises.

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Migration

• They travel in groups from 2 or 3 up to several
  hundred. Some are migratory within a limited
  range while others remain in a particular area.