Russian Beluga Whale Research: Like Another World


When you live in a big city among traffic jams, emails, social networks and calls, you forget about real life completely. And when you find yourself amidst nature in the wild you are at a loss at first. Just imagine that there is no phone, Internet, cars, trash and ready-to-eat food in plastic containers, there is no plastic everywhere, and the best and most desirable dessert is pure water. Forest, sea, whales, birds and a view from your window do not depend on your purse but on the way you put up a tent.



Only 150 km to the Arctic Circle!


Behold a miracle!

Free animals in their environment and you're an outsider who wants to understand what is happening there. You get back to your childhood days – all the adults around are happy, they say it is a holiday or a ballet or a theater, but you still do not understand what is happening, but it is exciting, interesting, fascinating.


So, together with our partners - ZOO TV Russian Animal Channel – I participate in the shooting of the "We Care" TV program about the beluga whale research summer camp of the International Fund for Animal Welfare at the northern Russia's Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. There are six people working in the IFAW Belugas camp.



This device simultaneously records video and sound under and above the water surface. This will allow better understanding of the behavior of white whales. 3 bioassays were taken for the purpose of creation a white whales Biopsy bank.

The weather station records weather conditions, surveyors note changes in behavior. Later a correlation will be drawn, as the scientists want to answer the question of how weather affects lifestyle and behavior of whales. What do they prefer the best: rain, fog, or a sunny day? Or maybe there is no bad weather for them as they live under the waves!

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