Beluga Whale Blows Bubbles, Does Tricks (PHOTOS)

Whale now we've seen everything!

The Daily Mail published these photos of a beluga whale blowing bubbles and waving to the camera at Kamogawa Sea World, east of Tokyo.

Beluga whales, also known as white whales, are highly social mammals found in the Arctic Ocean, according to National Geographic. They communicate using "clicks, whistles and clangs" and live in small groups called pods.

Of course, these photos aren't the only documented instance of beluga whales showing off. There are several YouTube videos of white whales performing tricks and hamming it up.

Click through the slideshow below including photos and a video of another white whale performing bubble theatrics.

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Comments

[orcinous]

12:21 PM on 02/09/2012

Pretty smart animal. What else is it going to do in the tank for 24/7/365/death?

[theroundearth]

02:37 PM on 02/09/2012

24/7/52

[doriath22]

07:35 AM on 02/09/2012

It's a TRAP!!!

[Tulka2]

07:03 PM on 02/08/2012

What the zoo doesn't want you to know is there the beluga put an S on either side of the O.

[SmallChange]

11:13 PM on 02/08/2012

Good one!

[ProudToBeVeryLiberal]

12:34 AM on 02/08/2012

Bubbles is a lucky guy...

[Karin Yates]

12:49 PM on 12/29/2011

So the Belugas are highly social? Looks like they are all alone in those glorified fish tanks at Sea World and the like. I think the whale is not so much waving as begging onlookers for help! No marine mammal should be kept in captivity. Too bad the real story of these whales and dolphins is so rarely told.

[vetxcl]

09:46 AM on 01/08/2012

Can socialize with the humans. Can and are used for further understanding of their behavior. Zoos and acqauriums now are repositories of threatened species. Out in the wild, that you idealise, they are killed. Welcome to our imperfect world.

[scud420]

12:39 PM on 02/08/2012

... how about we release them into the wild... AND stop killing them there?

[Olethea]

07:26 PM on 01/10/2012

He's trying to form letters. Soon they'll be texting to onlookers:

GMTF outa here!

[Caroleeena]

11:00 PM on 12/28/2011

I had no idea these whales were so into celebrities.

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

03:16 PM on 12/27/2011

Set the whales free! Whales do not belong in tanks, they belong in the ocean!

[vetxcl]

09:47 AM on 01/08/2012

Where they are hunted and killed.

[Olethea]

07:27 PM on 01/10/2012

Belugas are protected.

[scud420]

12:40 PM on 02/08/2012

so your solution is really just to cage them all these intelligent wild animals up?