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SEPTEMBER 26, 2000

The National Marine Fisheries Service on Sunday observed four killer whales stage a careful attack on a beluga whale, who first separated the beluga from its pod before beating it to death.

The NFMS witnessed the attack while on a regular patrol for dead or stranged beluga. Beluga are not endagered, but are depleted in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

Get the Story:
Killer whales track pod, beat beluga to death (The Anchorage Daily News 9/26)

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State: Whales not endangered (Enviro 07/14)
Beluga in danger (Enviro 06/01)

Cook Inlet Beluga Whales, Agreements, Laws, Information - www.fakr.noaa.gov/protectedresources/whales/beluga.htm
The National Marine Fisheries Service - www.nmfs.gov