SHORT PAPERS AND NOTES 163

• Main Authors: Milton M. R Freeman, A. V. Yablokov
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Beluga; Beluga*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.466.999; http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/2912/2889/

beluga were around 400 cm. in length, their weight is calculated to be about 935 kilograms4; the grey-coloured sub-adult measured 275 cm. and had a computed weight of 350 kilograms. There appears no reason to doubt that the hunter reporting this event had, as he believed, discovered the beluga shortly after they were caught in March, nor that the tracks of the medium-sized female bear near the carcasses at that time were those of the predator. According to the description given, such a bear would weigh in the range of 130 to 180 kilograms, or about one-fifth the probable weight of each adult beluga it had successfully killed and removed from the water.