A beluga whale, believed to have escaped a Russian enclosure in 2019, has baffled marine biologists after traveling to Sweden.
Marine biologists from the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries removed Hvaldimir’s harness in 2019 and have continued to track the whale’s progress since then. They believe Hvaldimir might have escaped the Russian enclosure and was trained by the Russian navy because the whale appears to be comfortable around humans.appears to be in “good health” local marine biologists told The Guardian, having foraged for fish under Norway’s salmon farms.
Russian spy, but Russian reserve colonel, Viktor Baranets, said in a 2019 broadcast with Govorit Moskva, “If we were using this animal for spying, do you really think we’d attach a mobile phone number with the message ‘Please call this number?’” theShow all 2 comments
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