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First Ever Rehabilitated Cook Inlet Beluga Calf | INDIE ALAS
Season 7
Episode 1
Indie Alaska visited the SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska where they're caring for Tyonek, the first rehabilitated beluga calf from the Cook Inlet. Stranded on a beach with no other beluga whales in sight, they brought him to the Sea Life Center where he has been receiving 24/7 care ever since. Cook Inlet belugas are one of eight endangered species that NOAA Fisheries.
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