GREMM research assistants photograph a group of belugas. Upon closer inspection, they make a surprising discovery: one of the animals is missing its tail! Instead of the usual two lobes of the caudal fin, this beluga, still unknown to the research team, has a white stump. We will have to encounter it again in the Estuary to try to learn more about how it was injured and how it has adapted to its handicap. This is not the first time a tailless whale has been observed, but such cases remain exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GREMM research assistants photograph a group of belugas. Upon closer inspection, they make a surprising discovery: one of the animals is missing its tail! Instead of the usual two lobes of the caudal fin, this beluga, still unknown to the research team, has a white stump. We will have to encounter it again in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[779,20,444],"class_list":["post-52470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baleine-grise-en","tag-beluga-en","tag-empetrement-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n