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What Is the Food Chain of the Beluga Whale?

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Summary: The beluga whale is an apex predator in the arctic marine food chain, and it mostly feeds on herring, cod, salmon and other arctic fishes. Discover how polar bears and humans can take over as the apex predator in the arctic marine lifestyle with help from an aquatic biologist in this free video on beluga whales.

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By Erin H. Carter
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Erin Carter has been an aquarist at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco since September 2004. She has worked with over 20,000 animals, focusing on teleosts and elasmobranches....read more

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"Hello my name is Erin Carter, and I am an aquatic biologist at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. And I've been an aquarist here for five years, I'm scuba certified, and I have a degree in marine biology. Well the beluga whale is an apex predator in the arctic marine food chain. They feed mostly on herring, and cod, salmon, and other arctic fishes. And then those fish feed on plankten, shrimp, crill, but there are polar bears and both human hunters that can sometimes take over as the apex predator in the arctic marine life cycle."

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