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Experts say he's may be lonely and searching for other whale friends — or, alternately, jacked full of raging sex hormones and looking for some watery hanky panky.
"We don’t know why he has sped up so fast right now," Sebastian Strand, a marine biologist at an organization called OneWhale, told the newspaper"It could be hormones driving him to find a mate. Or it could be loneliness, as belugas are a very social species –Hvaldimir first made a global splash in 2019 when fishermen in Norway found the whale wearing a harness that had a mount for a camera and the words "Equipment of St.
Despite hints of his Russian military roots, Russian representatives have never claimed ownership of the toothy-grinned beluga whale, and someSince his first sighting, tales of Hvaldimir have captivated animal lovers and beyond. The mammal is very friendly, having once retrieved a woman's cell phone in the ocean. He's known to approach boats and ask for food, or to play fetch with plastic rings.
"The closest beluga whales live farther north, in the Arctic Ocean and the frigid waters north of Norway and around Greenland,"
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