A storm breached the pens, in Sevastopol harbor in occupied Crimea, where the Russian navy kept its specially-trained dolphins.

A storm breached the pens, in Sevastopol harbor in occupied Crimea, where the Russian navy kept its specially-trained dolphins.

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    1 year ago

    In 2019, a beluga wearing a harness labeled “Equipment St. Petersburg” appeared in Norwegian waters, far from his species’ normal Arctic habitat, after apparently escaping a Russian enclosure.

    Norwegian biologists named the beluga Hvaldimir. They since have tracked him swimming south toward Sweden. “It could be that he’s searching for other beluga whales,” Sebastian Strand, a marine biologist with the OneWhale organization, told The Guardian. Tragically, Hvaldimir is swimming in the wrong direction to meet another member of his species.

    It’s like reading a greentext.