MYSTIC, Conn. — The second of five whales brought from Canada to Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium last year for research purposes has died. “Veterinarians and animal care experts at Mystic Aquarium, with the support of veterinarians and animal husbandry members from other aquariums worldwide, devoted the full capacity of their expertise to the whale, providing round-the-clock medical treatment, testing, and 24-hour …
With years of seeing each other every day and training with each other, a lot of animals and their trainers end up having a sweet bonding between them. This video that was posted on Instagram by the official page of Mystic Aquarium, shows exactly that kind of a bond between an adorable sea lion named Clara and her trainer. They …
Regular health checkups are mandatory for everyone, even for animals. Health check-ups can be an intimidating affair, but this video of a beluga whale getting an oral health check-up is going viral for all the right reasons. In the video, a care-taker from the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, USA was giving an oral health check-up to a beluga whale. Mystic …
MYSTIC, Conn. — Three Beluga whales arrived Friday night at their new home in a Connecticut aquarium after a legal battle to import them and two others from Canada. Connecticut-based Friends of Animals and other activists sought to block the transport in a lawsuit last fall against the U.S. Commerce secretary and National Marine Fisheries Service, which had approved the …