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If you can’t leave them, sell them or send them to a sanctuary, what do you do? While Marineland doesn’t have any current plans to euthanize the 30 belugas swimming around what's left of the Niagara Falls amusement park, the company threatened to do so last week in a letter to Canada’s federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson which was obtained by CBC News. The park would be faced with the “devastating decision of euthanasia” unless the federal government could provide them financial support, Marineland said in a letter. The message came days after the minister denied Marineland’s request for permits...

A band of beluga whales took in a lost narwhal and made it one of their own, researchers said after discovering the lone whale swimming and playing with its new friends. The narwhal was discovered in the St. Lawrence River, more than 620 miles from its normal habitat, swimming with about dozen of St. Lawrence River belugas. Narwhals normally live in the Arctic near Canada, Greenland, Russia and Norway, CBC News reported. GREMM said the narwhal was believed to be a juvenile, swimming with mostly male belugas. "It behaves like it was one of the boys," Robert Michaud, the president...

Nanook of the North, Katharine Mieszkowski, goes Whalin' for Palin by throwing harpoons at Palin's stance on beluga whales that swim up the Cook Inlet. Nanook Mieskowski, waxes poetic: But for all the amazing ways that the Cook Inlet belugas cope with their stark environment, there's one imminent threat for which they have no adaptation: Gov. Sarah Palin.Let's see, the beluga whales have one imminent threat that they can't adapt to and that be Gov. Sarah Palin. A quick fact check at google: Scientists catalog Cook Inlet belugas Estimates put the Cook Inlet beluga population at about 375, compared with...