Toothed Whales

Information on Arctic Whales

Close up of Narwhal in water showing its ivory tooth. Northwest Greenland. 1985

Beluga or White Whales gather in shallow water to remove dead skin by rubbing on the sandy river bottom during their annual moult. The Arctic.

Male Narwhal with a long tooth in Arctic waters, Aerial picture.

Male Narwhal with a long tooth in Arctic waters, Aerial picture.

Beluga Whale or White Whale swimming just below the surface of the Arctic waters

A pod of 5 male Narwhals, their single, unicorn like teeth clearly visible below water. The Arctic

Four Beluga or White whales swim along the floe edge in the Arctic

Beluga, while whale, in the Canadian Arctic.

Ghostly white glowing shape of a beluga or white whale underwater. Canadian Arctic.

Group of male Narwhals with their distinctive spiral single tooth, seen from the air. Canadian Arctic

Polar bear with Beluga muktuk (skin) amongst ice floes. Spitsbergen.

Polar bear burying Beluga muktuk (skin) amongst ice floes. Spitsbergen.

Polar bear with the remains of a beluga kill, with Ivory and Glaucous gull ready to scavenge. Spitsbergen.

Adult beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, scratching their skin on the gravel bottom of a freshwater delta to assist in the annual molt, Somerset Island, Nunavut

Adult beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas, scratching its skin on the gravel bottom of a freshwater stream to assist in molting, Somerset Island, Nunavut

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay. Canada.

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay. Canada.

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay. Canada.

Close up of Narwhal in water showing its ivory tooth. Northwest Greenland. 1985

A Dead Narwhal (male) with a long tusk. It has been harpooned and killed by Inuit hunters using kayaks. Northwest Greenland. (1985)

Close up of male Narwhal in water showing its ivory tooth. Northwest Greenland. 1985

Muktuk. In this case the skin from a Narwhal, a layer of black & white skin, one of gristle and then blubber.

Narwhal meat sliced and hanging up to dry on a meat rack in Qeqertat. Thule, NW Greenland. 1980

Close up of male Narwhal in water showing ivory tooth. Northwest Greenland. 1985

The Beluga whale a resident of Arctic waters can grow to 5 metres in length.

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay, Canada

Belugas swimming in peaty water at the mouth of Seal River in Hudson Bay, Canada

The Beluga whale a resident of Arctic waters can grow to 5 metres in length

Belugas swim past the ice cliff. Liefdefjord; Monacobreen; Svalbard.