内容摘要：A woman without legal status in the U.S. listens anxiously as Nora Sandigo, who runs a non-profit dedicated to supporting immigrant families, educates undocumented mothers about their legal rights and options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Jan. 17, 2025, in Florida City, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A woman without legal status in the U.S. listens anxiously as Nora Sandigo, who runs a non-profit dedicated to supporting immigrant families, educates undocumented mothers about their legal rights and options to prepare their families in case a parent were to be detained or deported, Jan. 17, 2025, in Florida City, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

“You can’t help but wonder what is it that they are communicating with each other,” she said. “They absolutely rely on sound to maintain these very complex societies.”Research has shown that individual belugas have a distinct call that they use in communication, much like a name, Vergara said. And it takes a couple years for young whales to learn their parents’ name and their own. But whales that are related or hang out together have calls or names that are similar, sort of like a last name, she said.

Belugas get the nickname “canary of the sea” because of their vocalization, but it also could apply like the canary in the coal mine, warning about an environment getting more dangerous, Vergara said., including here in Hudson Bay. And even though this is probably the biggest beluga population in the world, scientists are a bit concerned.“The disappearing ice is going to affect them,” Vergara said. “We don’t know how they’re going to react to shifts in water temperature, shifts in food availability, shifts in the availability of regular prey.”

Beluga whales swim through the Churchill River, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Beluga whales swim through the Churchill River, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, near Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

The change in ice is part of an overall altering of the base of the food chain: plankton. When those tiny creatures change it means “a whole shift in the prey base of belugas,” Vergara said.

Arctic cod, a high-fat fish that is key in beluga diets, is diminishing, said beluga expert Pierre Richard of the Northern Studies Center in Churchill and author of three whale books. But he said it’s an open question on whether belugas can adapt.“Captain America: Brave New World,” a Walt Disney Pictures release that opens in theaters on Friday, is rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of violence, action and some strong language.” Running time: 118 minutes. One star out of four.

“You’re the actor!” shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly claiming he lacks funds to support her. “The best actor in the world! Better than Clark Gable!”And we all chuckle. They probably all chuckled on set, too. Because the man playing Vito

is none other than Robert De Niro, indeed one of the best actors in the world, revered in our time as Gable was in his.It’s a cute moment and an apt one, too, because