56 SHORT PAPERS An Attack ' by a Polar Bear
Canadian Arctic is frequented each summer by large numbers of beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)l. They migrate to the head of the inlet, and then invade the mouths of the two streams which drain into it. If calving takes place in these fairly warm waters (8-9"C), the shock of birth is lessened, an...
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| Summary: | Canadian Arctic is frequented each summer by large numbers of beluga (Delphinapterus leucas)l. They migrate to the head of the inlet, and then invade the mouths of the two streams which drain into it. If calving takes place in these fairly warm waters (8-9"C), the shock of birth is lessened, and heat loss re-duced during the few days which must pay before the young animals have acquired some subcutaneous fat? On 26 July 1974, a sexually-immature female beluga was discovered stranded on a gravel bar at the head of the inlet (Fig. 1). Because it could not be manhandled back to water, and would have died from suffocation |
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