Social Behaviour

Belugas are very social creatures. They live in groups of two to ten, which may join other pods to form groups of up to ten thousand individuals. The social structure of these groups is not well known, because belugas only spend about four to seven percent of their time at the surface of the water, oftentimes only breaking the surface with their blowholes to breathe. The pods appear to be segregated along age and gender lines, with adult males swimming in one pod and adult females, juveniles and calves travelling in another.

Belugas hunt, play and migrate together. Their habitat and migration often corresponds with bowheads and narwhals.