{"id":57140,"date":"2026-07-22T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/first-beluga-whales-relocated-from-closed-marineland-park-arrive-at-new-homes-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:10:35","slug":"first-beluga-whales-relocated-from-closed-marineland-park-arrive-at-new-homes-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/first-beluga-whales-relocated-from-closed-marineland-park-arrive-at-new-homes-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"First beluga whales relocated from closed Marineland park arrive at new homes in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six beluga whales have arrived at aquariums in the United States after being moved from a closed Canadian marine park that could no longer care for the mammals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are part of a large pod of 30 belugas living at Marineland of Canada that need to be rehomed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sierra, Acadia, Osiris and Lillooet arrived at a Chicago facility, while Bertie Botts and Frankie arrived at SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Transported in specialised cold-water containers by truck and plane, the animals were accompanied throughout the journey by marine mammal veterinarians. This is the first stage of an unprecedented international relocation effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move followed months of planning and veterinary checks, with specialist teams now monitoring the whales as they settle into their new homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/ckg4x8lpe50o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six beluga whales have arrived at aquariums in the United States after being moved from a closed Canadian marine park that could no longer care for the mammals. They are part of a large pod of 30 belugas living at Marineland of Canada that need to be rehomed. Sierra, Acadia, Osiris and Lillooet arrived at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57142,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57140\/revisions\/57142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}