Whale who inspired 'baby beluga' song died

Courtesy Vancouver Aquarium

The beluga whale who inspired the most popular children's song "Baby Beluga," died now in the Vancouver Aquarium. At 46 years of age, she spent her entire existence in the aquarium, and resided considerably longer compared to average beluga whale. She died Monday mid-day in the aquarium.

An initial autopsy shows Kavna likely died of cancer. Aquarium vet Dr. Martin Haulena told reporters the lesions and growths he found "are most in line with cancer, which is regrettably an illness we connect with age," Citytv reviews. Belugas typically live 25 to 3 decades.

Since 1979, Kavna continues to be connected using the song "Baby Beluga," in regards to a baby whale playing within the ocean. Singer/songwriter Raffi Cavoukian visited the aquarium, and it was motivated to write the song in regards to a baby beluga like Kavna:

"Baby beluga within the dark blue ocean, go swimming so wild and also you go swimming so free. Paradise above and also the ocean below, along with a little whitened whale on the run.Inch

Cavoukian told Vancouver's News1130 he was motivated to write the song following the whale's trainer assisted him have fun with Kavna.

"She'd a serious effect on me in her in 1979," Cavoukian stated. "Kavna even arrived on the scene from the water and placed a light, elegant hug on my small oral cavity and that i could not stop speaking about this a couple of days."

The song is all about a totally free whale residing in the ocean, although Kavna spent her entire existence in captivity.

"That encounter inspired the song 'Baby Beluga,' so that as I love to say, the song set the whale free," Cavoukian told News1130. "Existence is complex also it leads us situations which have silver textures and provide us something they wouldn't as a rule have given."

Cavoukian told the Vancouver Sun it had been tough hearing this news of Kavna's passing.

"I felt sad i felt lots of pleasure for that privilege of getting reached know her cheap she stirred me to create that song," he told the Vancouver Sun.

Kavna was the favourite from the beluga whales in the aquarium, largely because of that song. The aquarium estimations greater than $ 30 million individuals have seen Kavna, the Vancouver Sun reviews. She being featured on the Canadian postages tamp in the year 2006 to mark the aquarium's 50th anniversary.

Further exams are planned on Kavna, to eliminate other possible reasons for dying, like fungi and bacteria. Kavna was the 3rd beluga to die in the aquarium recently.

You will find two beluga whales still in the aquarium, a parent and daughter named Aurora and Qila.