Bubble-Blowing Beluga

Posted by Alex in Animal on July 31, 2008 at 1:52 pm


Gail posted about whale flatulence before on Neatorama, and there’s just no way I can top that bubble. So here’s something else: a Beluga whale blowing bubbles!

A beluga whale blows bubbles at an aquarium in Japan to the delight of visitors who have come by the thousands to view the spectacle.

The whale is one of three that learned the trick from scuba divers, who give the whales breaths from regulators to enable the whales to blow the bubbles.

Link - thanks Zella Panossian!

(Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)




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9 comments to "Bubble-Blowing Beluga"

  1. Alan Spach
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    The Beluga whales in Seaworld Orlando do this too.
    The Walrus are still my favorite.

  2. MK
    July 31st, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    Mmmmmmmm……………… caviar………………………………………..

  3. DOJ
    July 31st, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    where’s the video?

  4. Thomas
    August 1st, 2008 at 12:40 am

    Yeah, but can it leave a poo trail twice the length of its body? Didn’t think so.

  5. Edward Robertson
    August 1st, 2008 at 8:55 am

    The Beluga whales at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta do the same thing. They go up to the surface, get some air in their mouths (because their mouths aren’t connected to their lungs), and then blow the bubble rings and play with them as they dive down to the bottom of the tank.

    Sometimes they’ll even suck them back in to their mouths and re-create them a time or two on the same dive.

  6. private
    August 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    And the young Beluga in the Aquarium in Valencia, Spain does it too (seen myself).

  7. LH
    August 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    It´s smoking a water pipe.

  8. Tim Giachetti
    August 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Bubbles must be very happy to be blown by a whale.
    Lucky Bubbles!

  9. HSCharles
    November 14th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    I have a flash site
    i’m looking for the script who shows google adsense in flash.
    how can i get it?


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