Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is a baby beluga sturgeon, just about 1 year old. If everything goes as planned, in about nine years its eggs will be harvested for caviar ...

"Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea, swim so wild and you swim so free, heaven above and the sea below, and a little white whale on the go." Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may ...

The record for the largest beluga sturgeon ever caught is 23.6 feet long and 3,463 pounds. This is larger than some whales—the beluga whale included. However, that record was set in 1827.

The whale is related to the tusked “unicorn” whale known as the narwhal. The beluga is not related to the sturgeon of the same name, which has been heavily fished for its famous caviar.