A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium became the first known beluga whale to recover from general anesthesia after a ...

Officials at Shedd Aquarium say they are guardedly optimistic about the outcome of a groundbreaking surgery on 12-year-old ...

A beluga whale at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium became the first known beluga whale to recover from general anesthesia after a ...

listen to ‘Beluga mimicking human speech’ on Audioboo Listen to this recording. It sounds like a drunkard playing a kazoo, but it’s actually the call of a beluga (a white whale) called NOC.

The special whale in question, NOC, was a beluga who lived at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California. In 1984, workers noticed bizarre, human-like sounds coming from an enclosure.

Listen to Noc the Beluga whale warbling in a human voice, several octaves lower than typical whale calls. The National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego first made the discovery in 1984 when ...

NOC was a beluga whale living at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, California. He had been with the foundation for seven years when researchers started to think that they were ...

The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech.

French rescuers were forced to euthanize an emaciated, 13-foot Beluga whale Tuesday that wandered into France’s River Seine last week, swam upstream and resisted efforts to be guided back to sea.