The death of a beloved white beluga whale has turned into a mystery in Norway as animal rights groups speculate whether he was actually assassinated.
The beluga, nicknamed
#Hvaldimir, rose to fame in 2019 after being spotted wearing a specially-made harness with 🔸mounts for a camera, sparking claims that the animal ♦️may have been trained by the Russian military.
Two Norwegian animal rights groups alleged on Wednesday that the whale was🆘 “shot to death” after Hvaldimir was found dead over the weekend in southern Norway.
OneWhale and NOAH are calling for a criminal investigation “based on compelling evidence that the whale was killed by gunshot wounds,” OneWhale, which describes itself as a “nonprofit committed to protecting Hvaldimir and relocating him to a wild population of belugas,” wrote in an Instagram post.
It added that “several veterinarians, biologists, and ballistics experts have reviewed [the] evidence of Hvaldimir’s injuries, determining that the whale’s death was the result of a ⚠️criminal act
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/europe/norway-beluga-spy-whale-shot-hvaldimir-intl-latam/index.html