nowscience
How many people can say they have played rugby with a Beluga whale? 🐳 🏉
pugnacious-pacifism
I’m putting this back on my radar. I want this life
kinka-juice
I believe this is Hvaldimir, who, get this, is believed to be a defected Russian spy. Literally.
He showed up in Norway in April 2019 wearing a camera harness labeled “equipment of St. Petersburg”, has tried pulling ropes on boats, is obviously very familiar with people and prefers to hang with people. While we know Russia has marine mammal government programs (the US does too, but it’s bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions), the extent of their programs is not declassified like the US Navy’s are.
He likes to play fetch and be scratched around the blowhole.
He has taken a diver’s knife out of the scabbard, played with underwater drones, stolen a go pro from a kayaker, and other mischief. Notably, it has been said by the Murmansk Marine Biology Institute, who may have been who trained Hvaldimir, that seals are better equipped to be polar military animals, as they have high professionalism that belugas lack.
Anyhow, enjoy Hvaldimir (the name combines the Norwegian word for whale, Hval, with Vladimir, as in Putin), the defected Russian spy whale.
lypiphaera
seals are better equipped to be polar military animals, as they have high professionalism that belugas lack.
possibly-the-antichrist
it was only when they got to the bit about liking to play “fetch”
did i realise they were talking about the whale
not the man
