189，Beluga Whales

These friendly whales don’t look like the rest of its family, butother than it’s size, it’s not completely different. The beluga whale can be found in Arctic and Subarctic waters. Theclimate there has long winters and is quite cold. These whales eat many typesof fish, shrimp, crabs, and krill. Like most other whales, the way they findfood is by foraging in the water. The beluga whale is big, so it doesn’t have many naturalpredators, but polar bears and killer whales prey on them. The way it defends itselfis by blending into the ice caps. But the beluga whale is actually quite afriendly animal. They have a population of around 150,000 individuals. Thesebelugas live for around 30-50 years in the wild, and can start mating by theage of 7-9. Scientists have called whales the smallest whale species. Evenstill, they are still pretty large. They have a length of 14 feet and weighapproximately 3,000 pounds. It is a moon white color and has a bulbous head,and chubby torso. For wild suzhou i’m palm tree and thank you for listening.