Stanley

Beluga

ligne décoration

Adopted by The Fairmont Waterfront

  • ID number

    DL0193

  • Sex

    Male

  • Year of birth

    Around 1981

  • Known Since

    1989

Distinctive traits

Stanley’s dorsal crest contains enough notches to identify him from both flanks with this feature alone. He also has small gray spots on each flank to help identify him.

Life history

We first met Stanley in 1989. At the time, he was gray, so a juvenile. From 1995 onwards, he was always recorded as white. He would therefore have been born around 1981.

Stanley’s sex was confirmed by genetic analysis of a biopsy taken from his back : he was male. His associations suggest that he belongs to the “Downstream boys”, a gang of males regularly found off Les Bergeronnes and Les Escoumins.

Visually, it’s difficult to determine an individual’s sex. Stanley’s sex was confirmed by biopsy. Males are generally longer and larger than females. Other possible methods are : observation of the genital cleft, type of herds frequented, examination when the animal dies and, for females, repeated observations with a newborn.

Regularly seen with...

Observations history in the Estuary

1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

Years in which the animal was not observed Years in which the animal was observed

Latest news

We’re at the mouth of the Saguenay near buoy K54. This is where Stanley, accompanied by DL0248, swims into a herd of around 30 belugas, mostly young grays. We’re at the tail of the herd. It’s difficult to move forward, as we’re right in the heart of the current bar, a dynamic area that also attracts many seabirds, like the Bonaparte’s gulls we observe.

Sponsor

The Fairmont Waterfront adopted Stanley (2001).