💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🎵 In 1984-85, thousands of belugas trapped in #Arctic pack #ice off #Russia’s #Chukchi Peninsula faced starvation.
The #icebreaker Moskva crushed an escape channel, playing #classical #music to coax the herd forward. Roughly 2,000 survived and about 1,000 died, though the music’s role stayed unverified.
👉 zmescience.com/feature-post/hi…
#beluga #whales #marine #rescue #animals #behavior #ocean #conservation #engineering #history #sovietunion #ussr #wildlife #marinebiology #biology #science
Operation Beluga -- or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving
Sometimes, you just need an icebreaker and some classical music to make your day better.Alexandru Micu (ZME Science)
