Beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins are related—they are both cetaceans, meaning they are in the whale family with orcas and narwhals. They are highly intelligent, social and vocal.

A beluga whale living in captivity with a pod of bottlenose dolphins learned to communicate using their unique sounds.

Researchers analyzed nearly 200 videos and photographs documenting interactions between the various kinds of cetaceans ...

Beluga Living with Dolphins Swaps Her Calls for Theirs Discover how beluga whale communication shifted as one beluga adapted to life with dolphins, imitating their vocal sounds.

While the use of beluga whales is less common that dolphins, and they are perhaps less professional than seals, they are equally as trainable, says Danny Groves, a spokesperson for Whale & Dolphin ...

Toothed whales – like dolphins and belugas – might live in the ocean, but they have some big things in common with cave-dwelling bats. They’re all mammals that live in dark places and use ...

Two months after the beluga whale was introduced into a new facility with the dolphins, scientists found that it began to imitate their whistles.

The beluga proposal, predictably, has ignited controversy. Environmental and animal-rights organizations argue that these 18 wild-caught whales are destined for lives of isolation, sensory ...

Last week, a beluga whale approached a fishing boat off the coast of Norway. The fishermen, surprised to encounter such a sociable whale, then noticed it was wearing a harness. Once they removed ...

Katrl, a Pacific white-sided dolphin, and Naya, a beluga whale, gave birth within 12 hours of each other at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium last month.

In November 2013, a four-year-old captive beluga whale moved to a new home. She had been living in a facility with other belugas. But in her new pool, the Koktebel dolphinarium in Crimea, her only ...

If the whale is indeed a Russian spy, as speculated in headlines around the world, it would not be the first marine mammal drafted into military service.