The beluga whale is the only white whale in the world. It takes the beluga six years to turn all white. A baby beluga, called a calf, is born blue or gray. The mother whale feeds the baby for about two years.

The beluga whale lives in very cold water near Alaska and the Arctic. It lives in a group called a pod. There are as many as twenty whales in a pod. The pod swims together. The pod hunts together. The whales protect each other.

A beluga is so noisy that it is sometimes called a sea canary. It sounds like a baby crying or a horse making a whinny sound. It can talk to other beluga whales using the sounds.

A beluga whale has 34 teeth. It uses its teeth to grab its food. After it grabs the food, it swallows it without chewing.

The beluga can hold its breath for almost 15 minutes. That lets the whale stay underwater for a long time and hunt.

Sometime you can see this whale in aquariums.