Why Is The Beluga Whale So Closely Connected To Humans? | Call Of The Baby Beluga | Real Wild

[Music] foreign between mother and baby is at the center of the lives of beluga whales [Music] they are never apart unless the mother dies one day a few years ago in the Estuary of Canada's St Lawrence River a baby Beluga washed up on the beach no one thought she could survive if we left the well there to itself it's clear it would have died so we had to make a fast decision we for Beluga scientists Robert me show the baby's life hung on a question few other wild animals are as closely connected to human beings as the beluga whales of the Saint Lawrence River for centuries we've killed them captured them poisoned them studied them and loved them after all this time have we learned enough to save one [Music] Robert Me shows on the beach with the baby because he knows her community [Music] it's a biologist since 1983 his research day has started near this place called Point Noir here the sagane river meets the St Lawrence which drains all of North America's Great Lakes Herbert studies about 900 belugas who live in the St Lawrence estuary but his work applies to the whole species these animals are somehow comparable to us they are mammals they are social animals they live about 60 80 years long they live in a pretty complex society maybe not as complex as ours but they live on another planet here can be as dark as tea stained by tannin from the forests belugas often dive deep and swim so far they seem to vanish so Robert and his team photograph white backs and whale breath over all these years they have photographed hundreds of whales identified by scars and other marks so when they see the same ones again and again they learn how and where and with whom these whales spend their lives they know them so well they're like family that's why Robert rushed to the beach when he heard about the baby at first he expected to find the baby near death he wasn't and when we arrived on site the ammo was in great shape it looked almost healthy her bear wanted to try to save her but the odds were very long he had already tried taking stranded newborns to aquariums none had survived but what if he could get another wild Beluga female to adopt her that hadn't been tried but maybe it would work Hobert was part of a team that makes decisions in cases like this so he got on the phone to veronique lassage a Canadian government biologist so we discussed it among us you know it's an endangered species you would like to save the animal but in some ways you're very limited in the means you have to to contribute to survival and in watching an animal die is not fun and if the whale was going to die no matter what why risk more suffering by trying something that might end badly I think it's a tough call do we want to give this individual a chance but when you have a stranded live calf if you if you can save it it's one more this is where science that we've collected over the years intervenes and our decision with our hopes for the population the logistically was feasible and we said okay let's try it and see what happens science-based conservation is is like shooting in the dark but we ought to try we ought to do it the team stayed with the baby all night waiting for Dawn somehow everything they knew or hoped about belugas was all tangled up in the life or death of this little whale like the newborn on the beach and these Arctic babies most young belugas are gray they take about 10 years to turn white adults only grow to three or four meters long there are creatures of ice and cold most belugas live thousands of kilometers north of the St Lawrence River by Nature they are an Arctic species from their skin color to their thick blubber to the lack of a dorsal fin that lets them swim easily under ICE Lucas belong in the North they live all around the northern fringes of the planet most in the Arctic Labyrinth of islands of North America from Hudson Bay almost to the pole [Music] belugas are among the noisiest of whales few of their sounds can be heard on the surface [Music] but when scientists listen underwater with hydrophones they record a huge variety of calls whistles and clicks [Music] I'm in love with the species belugas are an incredibly social incredibly acoustic and tactile species I mean imagine being a beluga whale up here in the Arctic where for many months of the year it is completely dark there's no sun coming up and they have to navigate through ice sound to them it's like Vision to us they rely on sound for communicating with each other for mediating their incredibly complex social interactions and to navigate and to find food Valeria Vergara is studying beluga's Communications on the shores of Canada's Cunningham Inlet a summer Gathering Place for belugas within sight of the Northwest Passage she recently discovered the way mother belugas and babies communicate there you go that was a cat that was a clear calf call you hear this call when there's little calves in the group because they don't know how to say anything else it's the only call a baby Beluga makes from birth and it cuts through chatter Valeria has compared it to a recording of her daughter calling across a busy playground [Music] on this long Arctic evening Valeria listens to several belugas who have become temporarily trapped in a small Inlet by Falling tide this is it's an incredible natural experiment what I'm trying to do here because only a few whales are isolated here she can focus her observations it allows me the opportunity to know that I'm recording that one group how many calves in the group how many earlings how many juveniles and how many adults Valeria has learned that the call starts simply but grows up with the baby just like a human baby will cry will recognize that cry for sure and a human toddler will say mama and a human grown-up will say hey Mom it's a contract call that evolves it's still a call to the mom adults use contacos with each other as well in other circumstances but they all have to do with group cohesion as the tide comes back in beluga's from either side try to cross the shallows to reach each other Valeria calls it caterpillaring when you watch them for a while you realize just what a social and tactile species the Lewis are they're constantly touching one another males form rafts and they rest together always maintaining contact with one another you know you see female taking care of the cats of other females you you see behaviors that show that these animals have empathy and they form very strong bonds far to the south in the warmer darker Waters of the Saint Lawrence belugas weave the same bonds these isolated whales are a bit like the trapped beluga's Valeria studied except the tide that left them on their own took centuries and was made of ice these whales live this far from the Frozen North because around 12 000 years ago in the last ice age was ending this was the Frozen North Ice Age glaciers had just retreated so the Saint Lawrence neighborhood probably looked more like Cunningham Inlet there Windswept full of whales then when the ice receded to the north and most belugas followed about ten thousand of them stayed behind perhaps because unusual tidal currents here churn cold deep water and produce abundant food for marine life including belugas 13 whale species come here to feed like those trapped Arctic whales these belugas give scientists a chance to really get to know this species up close here in Saint Mary's we have the only population in the world that have been studied for long enough to be able to start building a good portrait of Audi live who they live with and eventually trying to say why they do that for instance in summer males travel with companions they've hung out with for years we call them the Mata because they roam together in big groups all the same guys together in English bikers meanwhile females and their babies Drive what may be a dominant Beluga trait what some people would call a sense of place and scientists call site fidelity so all their life is is driven by the ethnicity to establish some kind of home [Music] all beluga whales have this tendency to own to the same summer concentration area be it in Russia in Alaska or the Arctic Canadian Arctic or in Saint Laurence de do the same belugas spend time near Point Noir at the mouth of the sagane Fjord and on up the sagony at a place called Bay Saint margarit here they come often to stay and mingle longer than anywhere else in their summer range when we start a new season I can't avoid asking myself will I see Alpha pascolio Wilbur have a new calf this year there's maybe 100 and 150 whales that we know very well and enough to realize that they are different some live in small some live in large groups some are very curious and they've shown curiosity and investigated us systematically for years realizing that different animals have different character temper behavioral repertoire it forces you to think of belugas as the society where not all individuals are the same Society composed of different individuals having developed different skills is probably better adapt to cope with dramatic change it was Dawn on the day after the Baby Beluga was found Me shows team and a crew from the sagane St Lawrence Marine Park set out with the baby [Music] the decision to try to help her was based on what Robert and others had learned over the years and on new research about something belugas and some other mammals do which is called aloe parenting [Music] it's a kind of babysitting like this example in which a juvenile leaves mom to spend time with a different female area and other scientists have even seen captive Beluga females nursing unrelated babies there were also signs of individual social action like this Behavior which Robert saw clearly for the first time in this footage here a female without a child whom he called a guardian protected moms with newborns from a pesky older juvenile [Music] what we have learned for Beluga in the wild here is that they live in pretty strong and and stable female community and we had seen female taking care of non-related calf what would happen if we brought an orphan animal in a wild group like that would it be adopted this is exactly the gas that we made whatever happened now this tiny whale would become part of a long story of belugas and people that ties these curious little whales so closely to us that our grandest history and maybe our future is literally in their flesh and blood foreign s have long hunted belugas for food in the high Arctic Inuits still do but when Europeans came belugas were used to feed machines as well as people we killed them for leather we killed them for oil in the 1860s a few of them became the first whales ever captured alive for show business in the 1920s they were accused of competing with the fishing industry and people were paid to kill them that ended after a scientist looked in the stomachs of dead ones and saw mostly small fish not caught same time our booming industrial civilization was literally getting under their skin with steel coal and Automobiles the vast St Lawrence Watershed became for a while the main engine of global industrial growth right here humans learned that we can make things that are bigger than we ever could have imagined including mistakes because they live only few hundred kilometer Downstream from the great lake from the heart of America and all the mistakes we made over the last decades somehow ended up in the Beluga tissues each Beluga is somehow telling us that recent history of North America harpoons guns poisonous contaminants and other Killers took their toll and by the 1960s one thing was clear the St Lawrence belugas were almost gone one space Saint Marguerite probably looked as crowded as this now nine out of ten of the belugas have vanished [Music] in the early 70s nobody in the booming cities of the Saint Lawrence Watershed seemed to care that the little white whales had become so few [Music] but then there was a new Force for change it began with two young women and a boat [Music] they were Heather Malcolm and Leon Peppard journalists from Toronto who came here in 1973. in the 60s there had been a global outpouring of new scientific and popular information about the intelligence and social lives of whales and dolphins and people started to think again about how to treat them the two women brought that change vigorously to the Saint Lawrence Heather Malcolm and I did a behavioral film study on the St Lawrence Beluga here at the mouth of the saganae [Music] they lived in a camper and they used a tiny inflatable they also took photos from the shore from the Rocks you can look with cameras whether film cameras or still directly down on the pods and identify their groups most of our best photographic work was right here at this point in 1983 their photos became the foundation for the work of a newcomer well bear Michelle there are quite a few whales that you have photographed that are still with us today that are still with us when Leon visited tatasac recently kobear showed her how her work helped prove that belugas live longer than previously thought down here 77. okay you photographed this animal in 1977. this animal was photographed about two weeks ago on the 3rd of August this year unbelievable from the beginning Leon was convinced that belugas needed protection so she became an advocate for them the nature of politics is is is a very slow turning wheel so she pushed the wheel she helped stop sport hunting for these whales she helped get them on the endangered species list she proposed what seemed an Impossible Dream the creation of a marine park for the whales she realized how important it was to have good data to bring forth her project and not just a militant uh idea it was also based on good information while Leon was promoting the creation of a park toxicologist Pierre bellonde stumbled on a dead whale and what he found made headlines in September 1982 I was introduced to the world of belugas through a carcass that was almost exactly right here September 15 and it was lying there and it looked absolutely wonderful and when you touch it it's so soft and it's pure clean and my friend who was there who is a veterinarian said let's open it and my first reaction was is there a you know a zipper or how do you do that but of course being a vet he had brought his kit and you know with his knives we opened it we took all those samples we brought them back to the lab and he had all those chemicals in his body and that launched me and others on an incredible voyage Pierre and his veterinarian colleagues started examining as many dead belugas as they could find they learned that belugas were dying of diseases like cancers that could be caused by contaminants that were found in their flesh what we were discovering in fact were that those whales were so loaded with toxic chemicals that they should have been considered as toxic waste the chemicals were carried to the belugas by migrating marine life like eels each eel would pick up a tiny bit of a contaminant then belugas would eat hundreds of eels and the chemicals would be concentrated in their bodies the beluga whales who live near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River are dying off about 40 of them have been found dead along the shores of the river in the past three years the Saint Lawrence belugas became well known for the poisons in their blood Pierre became well known too he went on TV he argued with governments I think I've ruffled a lot of feathers along the way he eventually wrote a poetic and sorrowful book oh God when you see a you know mother calf pair it's it's easy to establish a connection they are intelligent they know their environment they are inquisitive and that they have emotions of course it's impossible to imagine that an animal that evolves does not have emotions we're part of the same family in a way [Music] when we started very few people knew they were beluga whales in the Saint Lawrence the fact that we found that there were whales dying people say oh if there are wheels dying there must be whales living there where are they interest in St Lawrence Wales boomed so pushed by Leon Pierre and others governments were pressured to get serious about cleaning up contaminants and at last Leone's Impossible Dream came true the sagane St Lawrence Marine Park was created in 1998 25 years after she first proposed it this is the birthplace of the Marine potato area program in general at least in the marine environment in Canada without knowing it these long-suffering belugas had become agents of change for the whole river people now love belugas people know how important they are to the river people know that they are a symbol after all of how what are we going to do with the environment what are we going to do with the atmosphere how are we going to survive for our our kids and the future Generations there was another dramatic change in less than a generation humans had turned from killing to love now would Beluga numbers recover would this symbol of our mistakes become the mark of our Redemption for a while Beluga numbers seemed stable then came the summer of 2012. veronique glassage is the lead St Lawrence Beluga scientist for the government's Fisheries agency in 2012 there was those emails coming in and in a very rapid way you know one after the other five calf that within few weeks in the early calfing season was was an unheard of it was panicking and another case another case and then we started you know conference calls and say hey what's going on we went up to 8 9 10 and then wow when will that stop and we were at the end of August and we reached the number of 16. veronique organized a meeting of key scientists at a conference in Newfoundland and the News got worse we brought everybody together to table their data and have a wider picture of what was going on so we're we're faced with the population that we thought was stable but now apparently it's declining for the last 10 years the population probably went down from 1200 belugas to close to 900 belugas so it's a very rapid reduction in the population and we rang the alarm years later the alarm is still ringing One Summer Afternoon robertmy show is photographing whales far out in the St Lawrence when he gets a phone call a dead female Beluga has washed up nearby for more than 30 years now we have been collecting carcasses of beluga whales some provided us answer but mostly it raised immense question uh she could be on her first pregnancy she's pretty big they they have their first calf around 10 and usually they are still a little bit grayish at that time Stefan will tell us tomorrow if she's pregnant so let's hope it's not one other uh dead calf this year uh we need we need them all a day later her body is 450 kilometers to the Southwest at the University of Montreal where Stefan Lair professor and veterinarian goes to work what we're doing here is called I call it observational science you know we look at cases from the while and we try to explain why this animal die the veterinary team takes samples for testing but the answer to the big question comes quickly I can see a tear in her uterine wall she died of infection after giving birth it is the worst possible news another young mother and her new baby gone three of the females that we look at this summer actually died giving birth this is something that we've seen in the last few years and it seems to be something new for this population so we have a lot of female that are dying while giving birth this explains how some belugas are dying it does not say why trying to find out what is causing these deaths is like trying to find a serial killer is it standing on a corner in a suit or is it crawling out of a sewer there are many suspects flame retardant chemicals that can affect the thyroid and thus childbirth stress like noise that's been shown to affect childbirth and even domestic animals lack of ice for ice-loving belugas in the warming winter fewer fish to feed expectant and nursing mothers very difficult because we we cannot say it's all contaminants or it's all because of noise or it's it might be just one of those factors but to tease those apart at the moment is extremely hard so there's a crisis a crisis for belugaire crisis for us trying urgently to understand what happened and to identify what we can do in this war of knowledge against death scientists work with urgency and care collaborating wherever they can and Gathering their evidence piece by tiny peace as summer ends veroniclesage works with Robert micho's team to go on a painstaking hunt for biopsies tiny bits of whale flesh that will yield big secrets in research labs Michelle marzon uses a kind of fishing pole dart gun a little sting a lot of data the belugas do one of their Vanishing tricks so veronique and Michelle listen in by hydrophone biopsies will tell veronique about pregnancy rates if they're too low it may be because of diet contaminants or stress but if they're high it may mean either that there's a recovery or that more females are getting pregnant because they lost calves we cooked the sample into three pieces so two pieces of skin one for each of the genetics lab we do the hormones at The Institute that's what will tell us whether the animals are pregnant or not foreign [Music] as the cold sets in the forces of knowledge Gather in the labs like winter soldiers making swords far from the St Lawrence and Halifax Nova Scotia some of the pieces veronique sliced up on the boat arrive at St Mary's University so we're trying to extract DNA from the skin samples essentially break open the cell and grinding it up helps with that process like so much of the effort to save Beluga lives the study of DNA searches in the folds of death first analysis of DNA data by Tim Frazier and his team tracks genetic relationships in detail the field team is telling us who's associated with who and how often they're together and how strong those bonds are and we're saying okay we're providing the relatedness information saying yeah those those males that you see together um they're full siblings right so it makes sense that they're helping each other find mates then when a whale with DNA identification dies scientists can use all this knowledge about relationships and behavior to search for the factors that kill it's a great example of collaboration of a bunch of different fields it really is kind of a bunch of concerned people that are trying to figure out what's going on the people that have hung on for the Long Haul are the people that really love what they're doing what do you think about the size of the sample I think some will be uh good we have enough but some others uh yeah we had trouble with some of the darts I think most of them will be away so I'm working on several species of marine mammals but I would say that the belugas are my preferred species the variety of sounds they Emit and and the the social aspect to their to their life there are so many questions you can ask and this this edition of seeing the the animals go by your boat and look at you in the eye that's that's really something [Music] foreign [Music] there was plenty of love and worry that early morning as the boat approached Point Noir the Baby Beluga had been out of the river for at least 12 hours I thought it was a very stressing moment when the real moment when we put it back in the water everything goes very fast in your head not being sure that it would make it not being sure that it would be able to swim again my personal fear with that this animal will drop it oh yeah so I was so relieved everything became possible again but it was also the beginning of a very long day they had done their best armed with knowledge they had acted with empathy knowing that the whales might be able to do the same but would they when the ice rolls in and the small boats come out of the water people lose track of the belugas for years scientists have thought that in Winter these whales Don't Stray far from their summer range but that may not be true that's why Jean Francois gasoline and his government team are going out to look for them this is a winter survey for Beluga the objective of this project is to find out where the animals spend their winter months conditions at 8 30 9 35 we're running out of ice and we're in Open Water Open Water may be a concern no one knows how important ice is for southern belugas but some scientists speculate that belugas evolved to use ice for hunting and protection from storms so in Winter they may need it but average winter ice here is decreasing in our nine swimming Direction Jean Francois is not seeing as many whales here in Winter as he had expected based on summer surveys where are they going in the future satellite tags may offer a clue but surveys will continue to expand you can't save them if you can't find them [Music] piece of this puzzle is baffling endearing and sometimes tragic every year one or two belugas turn up much farther away than anyone expects and most of them then try to make contact with humans this is Liverpool Nova Scotia a beluga from the St Lawrence showed up here in early summer then stayed around people called him Lucas Imagining the huge distance that that little whale had had to travel to get here we started documenting solitary sociable beluga whales in 1998 and at the time we thought that this was a once in a million event and nothing could be farther from the truth because every year pretty much since that time in 1998 there has been at least one and as many as four beluga whales that have been found outside of their normal range Catherine Kinsman runs the whale stewardship project she's worked directly with eight solitary belugas and she's kept track of a total of 30. the same spring that Lucas showed up a group of three St Lawrence belugas appeared off-road Island Long Island and the New Jersey Shore in Nova Scotia Catherine Kinsman worried that Lucas could get too friendly which could be dangerous for him they are social cultural animals and so a little Beluga off by itself has no one to talk to has no one to move alongside with [Applause] did he actually like make physical contact with your paddle board it'll come up let's head over the water put your hand right outside okay and what happens when when you've done that goes back down is that what you think he's lost or do you think they're just kind of will break off or I so wish that I had a really clear answer for you how this whale got here it's one of the things that we don't know it's one of the things that feels really important to find out Lucas eventually disappeared but not from Catherine's heart one of the biggest questions that I always hold in my mind is is there a safe place anywhere on the earth for a little lost whale and then the larger question is there a safe place on the earth for 900 of them [Music] I really I really want to believe [Music] [Music] one weekend veronique glassage returns to the island in the middle of the Saint Lawrence where she began her own Beluga Journey eel oliev island of hairs for her master's degree veronique came here to study the effect of human generated noise on belugas now she's back with her husband Jean Francois who did the winter aerial surveys they're camping with their children a river crossing ferry goes around the southern tip of elodea when the ferry passed veronique would watch and listen basically behave like we do in a bar when it's really noisy so they they start to repeat themselves and they simplify the message the frequency they use will be higher so like when we scream and then at some point they they just reduce the calling rates so they say well let's talk later so they they basically shut up for a while EV is also a symbol of another big question about the belugas are they getting enough to eat [Music] for years the waters near this island have been spawning grounds for a huge Herring run but the spring runs are declining if Beluga females depend on eating a lot of Herring before giving birth this decline might hit them hard scientists led by Nadia Menard at the sagane St Lawrence Marine Park are studying all possible prey including Herring we're not looking at what's actually been eaten we're looking at what's in the fridge for the beluga whale so what's available for them we were able to find that there are still Herring that are coming in to spawn we can't say that comparable numbers but the food source is still present but present is different from abundant a recent study of 28 factors like prey showed declines in overall ecosystem quality for belugas that's not just contaminants or noise that's the warming world but I think that belugas are telling us about the dangers we are facing now when Robert micho and the team put the orphan Beluga in the water there was a ferry nearby the team's hydrophone didn't work so they couldn't tell if the baby was calling but if she was would the whales be able to hear her they must have it took them just 55 seconds to find her but they were all males they stayed with the newborn for more than an hour but then eventually they let it go by itself she was alone five minutes ten minutes 30 minutes was she calling now was her call masked from distant females by the fairy noise then you start figuring was it a good thing to do [Music] in the Arctic Valeria Vergara is thinking about fairy noise he's ending her Summer's work here earlier she and the crew from a nearby Resort built an observation tower where she let tide and whales surround her with calls while she watched both typical behavior and not so typical but now she's moving to noisier places so now we know probably the biologically most important call there is we know that that's that's the beginning and we're studying them in a really pristine area and then we're moving the study to an area that is definitely not pristine Valeria has come to tatasac with her daughter Martina to work with Robert on a pilot project for an animal that relies so profoundly on sound to communicate to navigate to find food the Saint Lawrence is a very noisy Place very nice ecotourism noise noise from all these sources masks their communication signals for instance this is Valeria's underwater recording of that jet ski as it passed these little calves are being born in an environment that is extremely noisy for the first month of their lives or so they make vocalizations that are not as loud they don't reach the frequencies of the calls that the adults make and so will the calves be heard this combination of Science and empathy has already led to changes when the ferry Corporation here saw a study of noise it designed quieter fairies and companies changed planned routes to avoid Beluga birthing zones and scientific studies contributed to a decision not to build a controversial pipeline terminal new rules at the Marine Park Focus protection on what is called critical habitat places that are most vital to animals lives when we look at the marine environment from the surface what do we see we see water it looks flat but underneath there's a mosaic of habitat it's not all equally important thank you and there is another piece of dramatic change cancer rates are dropping now we have been doing these wall spawning examination of the league of wild for over 30 years now and the first thing that we saw was that was a very unusual number of cancer what's interesting is that the number of cancer that we're seeing in this Beluga right now is really decreasing which makes sense because the exposure of belugas to carcinogenic contaminants have decreased quite a lot we don't see cancers that much anymore but the belugas are still in trouble maybe because of our biggest mistake of all the cloud of carbon in our sky on the St Lawrence no one is giving up it's as if we're all endangered species now learning how to link arms and save the babies as we step out into the Heat the reality the truth I guess is probably that there's more than one factor and so I think that even though we could say well you know there's not much we can do global warming and that's it we're just gonna go home and watch TV I guess but there's other things that we can change there's things that we can't do there are things that we can do if we protect those critical habitat for belugas if we reduce noise in those habitat if we continue reducing contaminant in their habitat if we divert the the traffic from some critical area we might help Beluga dealing with those new threats so everything we know that can help then we have to do it foreign [Music] you live with a white animal that has a big smile in his face is totally charismatic as I am enjoying spending some time with them when I am back in my books and I read that real story that we've written for 30 years this is a sad story somehow [Music] foreign every study is like reading a novel you don't know what the ending is going to be and this is just we're in the middle of the novel and what is important now is to understand that story to learn the lessons from beluga whales one day Valeria and Robert walked away Saint Margaret they talk about how whales might act with empathy too when you have species that are so sociable it makes sense for the ability to feel pleasure in helping others to be very entrenched to be evolutionarily adaptive when I dropped the little whale in the water I was just afraid oh my God what happened same group of five males yeah for one hour one full hour traveling with the baby whale yeah and they dropped it the calf stayed on its home for about an hour it was a long long period for us foreign and then a female with a young animal came came to the cast yeah and then it's the behavior changed dramatically she was acting like a mother you know when she she left it by him with its petrol totally and turning his head all the time to look at what's going on to make sure and they slow their bodies down a little bit to accommodate they do that s shape and then this one under the boat then just like that the big female with her own two-year-old and the little one dove deep into that tea colored water vanished [Music] the baby never washed up the Mother wasn't recognized again [Music] but Robert saved a tiny piece of skin from the baby for the genetics lab to identify foreign so one day in 10 or 20 years one of the researchers from this stalwart team may take a biopsy from a full-grown female swimming with her baby out in this Great River and we will learn how the story ends [Music] thank you

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Published: Wed Oct 12 2022