Last autumn, a shuttered amusement park in Niagara Falls, Canada, tried to export its 30 remaining belugas to China. When the Canadian government blocked that sale on welfare grounds, the park threatened to euthanise the animals. So began the race to save the whales.
Sam Colbert reports on the challenge of re-homing captive whales. Even among leading scientists, what’s best for the animals is far from clear.
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