{"id":61861,"date":"2026-09-02T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/2-more-beluga-whales-die-at-chicagos-shedd-aquarium\/02\/09\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:17:50","slug":"2-more-beluga-whales-die-at-chicagos-shedd-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/2-more-beluga-whales-die-at-chicagos-shedd-aquarium\/02\/09\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"2 more beluga whales die at Chicago&#8217;s Shedd Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago&#8217;s Shedd Aquarium after another whale that came from a closed Canada marine park died last week, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Two beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium passed away despite immediate efforts by animal care and veterinary teams to provide lifesaving measures,&#8221; a statement from the Shedd read in part. &#8220;Rain, a 20-year-old female rescued beluga, arrived at Shedd in mid-August as part of the recent international rescue effort. Beethoven, a 34-year-old male, was part of Shedd&#8217;s resident beluga pod. At this time, it&#8217;s impossible to know if these passings are isolated or related.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The final group of rescued beluga whales <a data-ylk=\"slk:arrived at the Shedd Aquarium on Tuesday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/final-group-rescued-beluga-whales-arrives-chicagos-shedd-aquarium-closed-canada-marine-park\/19777307\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">arrived at the Shedd Aquarium on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rescues came from a marine park in Canada that had been closed and nonoperational for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two whales arrived early Tuesday morning. The animal care team had been observing all nine rescued whales around the clock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A <a data-ylk=\"slk:beluga whale died last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/1-beluga-whales-rescued-canada-marine-park-named-peekachu-dies-suddenly-chicagos-shedd-aquarium\/19738972\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">beluga whale died last week<\/a> after being moved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Shedd is <a data-ylk=\"slk:helping to re-home;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/shedd-aquarium-museum-campus-chicago-welcomes-beluga-whales-canada\/19714134\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">helping to re-home<\/a> 30 beluga whales from the Canada marine park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Others are going to Atlanta, San Antonio, San Diego and Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The belugas can be up to 15-feet long and weigh up to 3,300 pounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/science\/articles\/2-more-beluga-whales-die-020547564.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago&rsquo;s Shedd Aquarium after another whale that came from a closed Canada marine park died<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/2-more-beluga-whales-die-at-chicagos-shedd-aquarium\/02\/09\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/3b6c3d77ba42d660e7a1c3021bd8a36d6c6a28235feb7f638a5dc866f84847b4\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w1200%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_jpg\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fwls_articles_228%2F551ba450d0bdd00aa3d60068b49a0879.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}