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A six-week-old male beluga whale will be introduced to the public at the Shedd Aquarium on Sunday.<\/p>\nA six-week-old male beluga whale will be introduced to the public at the Shedd Aquarium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The calf was born Dec. 14 head first, rather than tale first, which caused complications including an unnatural curve in his rear flippers.<\/p>\n
That curve is now gone and he is swimming fine, said Ken Ramirez, the Shedd’s chief trainer.<\/p>\n
The baby beluga feeds every 30 minutes and is gaining an average of 10 pounds a week. He now weighs 185 pounds. <\/span><\/p>\n To feed him, 23-year-old Puiji is eating an average of 75 pounds of fish a day — about twice as much as she usually eats.<\/p>\n “He’s independent, he’s social, curious, playful,” Ramirez said of the calf who doesn’t yet have a name. He is one of two beluga whales born in December, though the second one did not survive.<\/p>\n –Staff report <\/em><\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n A six-week-old male beluga whale will be introduced to the public at the Shedd Aquarium on Sunday. The calf was born Dec. 14 head first, rather than tale first, which caused complications including an unnatural curve in his rear flippers. That curve is now gone and he is swimming fine, said Ken Ramirez, the Shedd’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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