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This is unfortunate for the North American captive beluga population. The only sustainable population may be Marineland Canada, which probably will not send any more whales to the breeding consortium.
 
MidwestFan said:
This is unfortunate for the North American captive beluga population. The only sustainable population may be Marineland Canada, which probably will not send any more whales to the breeding consortium.
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I'm convinced that Marineland might eventually have to disgorge some of their Beluga's to save money or because of a lawsuit or other goverment action or because the park somehow changes ownership and the new owner(s) decide they want to improve the park's reputation by joining the CAZA and/or AZA.
 
Gulo gulo said:
Beluga Calf died. Lol, this place needs to get out of the Beluga program. It's ok to admit defeat, but not continually losing calves in this day and age with social media.
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Why does it need to get out of the Beluga program? There have been 2 births so far, from the same mother. It's not rare that the first calves don't make it. Social media is full of nitwits, who aren't able to comprehend such a concept.
 
ZooElephantsMan said:
Yeah but all three of them (both calves and the mother) have died young
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Off course the calves have died young. They are calves, they are young! It is not extraordinary they have died. The last one had a defect in it's bowels. It was born with it, and there was nothing to be done about it. And the mother had micro tears in her heart. So with other words, a hidden heart problem. There's no reason for GA to stop keeping beluga's, since these are problems are not caused by GA in any way.
 
Johnny said:
Off course the calves have died young. They are calves, they are young! It is not extraordinary they have died. The last one had a defect in it's bowels. It was born with it, and there was nothing to be done about it. And the mother had micro tears in her heart. So with other words, a hidden heart problem. There's no reason for GA to stop keeping beluga's, since these are problems are not caused by GA in any way.
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I agree. Once again I hope that ML Ontario sends some animals into the AZA population.
 
Sea lion show and exhibit construction underway

The new sea lion exhibit and show area is currently being constructed in place of the 'Georgia Explorer' area. The 'Georgia Explorer' area had sea turtles, shark and sting ray touch tanks, and a kid play area. Contruction is taking place outside of the aquarium at the corner of Baker St NW and Luckie St NW which is just outside where the exhibit is going to be.

Here's a link to an article about the sea lion exhibit when it was announced: Georgia Aquarium plans new $40M sea lion exhibit - Atlanta Business Chronicle
 
Aurek and Maple (belugas) moved to Georgia Aquarium from SeaWorld Orlando.

Grayson moved to Shedd.
 
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The aquarium is soon to be home to another non-releasable California sea lion from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, bringing their total up to 7.
 
Article on current and upcoming animals born:

Aquari-Moms

It seems the aquarium now has striped pajama squid, but unfortunately only viewable on the behind-the-scenes tour.
 
I think this is the most adorable creature I have ever seen.
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