Beluga baby

Duration: 0:13:43

Genre: Actuality | Animal | Educational

Year Published: 1978

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Learning Corporation of America: Distributor | National Film Board of Canada: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the first successful birth of a whale in captivity. Pictures the entire process from the anxious waiting, to the nervous onset of labor, and the ecstatic delivery of the calf. Observes the Beluga baby becoming the focus of public attention as it swims, nurses, and appears to be thriving. Concludes on a sad note when the newborn whale dies of a bacterial infection.

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