beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)

Query: whale

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Subject:	beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas)
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Eskimos Capturing White Whales

Author Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871–1954)
Subject: Whaling, White whale, Eskimos--Hunting
Tag: Aquatic Mammals, Polar
Date 1916
Source/Photographer
English: Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) (1916) Real Story of the Whaler : Whaling, Past and Present, New York City (NY): D. Appleton and Company, p. 27
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_44650_Eskimos_Capturing_White_Whales.jpeg

The beluga whale or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean of the family Monodontidae. This white whale is also known as the beluga, melonhead, or sea canary.

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