{"id":954258,"date":"2026-07-23T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/954258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:38:14","slug":"chicagos-shedd-aquarium-rescues-four-beluga-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/954258\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s Shedd Aquarium rescues four Beluga Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">CHICAGO (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/\">25News Now<\/a>) &#8211; 30 Beluga whales needed rescue after Marineland of Canada closed in 2024. Four of those whales have already found a new place to swim here in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Acadia, Osiris, Sierra, and Lillooet have arrived at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. They traveled from Canada to the Windy City in specialized water-filled containers carried by trucks and planes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Now, veterinarians are monitoring their health. The public can\u2019t go see them yet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Experts will take what they learned from this move and apply it when moving other animals out of Canada. Shedd Aquarium has committed to lifelong care for up to ten Beluga Whales as part of the effort. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">You can watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/\">25News<\/a> &#8211; any newscast, anywhere &#8211; streaming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/livestream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/livestream\">LIVE<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">25NewsNow.com<\/a>, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/page\/get-the-new-25-news-now-app-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/page\/get-the-new-25-news-now-app-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">25News mobile app<\/a>, and on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/page\/how-to-watch-25newsnow-on-ctv-and-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/page\/how-to-watch-25newsnow-on-ctv-and-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\">WEEK 25News SmartTV streaming app<\/a>. Learn more about how you can get connected to 25News streaming live news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/page\/how-to-watch-25newsnow-on-ctv-and-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.25newsnow.com\/page\/how-to-watch-25newsnow-on-ctv-and-apps\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WEEK. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (25News Now) &#8211; 30 Beluga whales needed rescue after Marineland of Canada closed in 2024. Four of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":954259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[9835,4749,118688,110650,2147,960,5386,1818,50,936,4747,44317,383977,2452,12793],"class_list":["post-954258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-25news","tag-animal","tag-aquarium","tag-beluga","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-ocean","tag-rescue","tag-save","tag-shedd","tag-week","tag-whales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}