WWF is supporting a project to track narwhals; Arctic whales best known for the long tusk that sticks out from their faces. They estimate that there are about 50.000-80.000 narwhals in the world, with most of them living in the fjords and inlets of northern Nunavut, Canada.
As a young teenager, while living in Spain, I once found a magazine with pictures from narwhals and other arctic animals (like the white Beluga whales), and I can tell that those pictures decorated my inspiration wall for quiet a while! It´s so great to see all those amazing creatures, which we (or at least I) know so little about. So that´s amongst others why they now "launched the narwhals into cyberspace" by giving 9 lucky (?) ones their own little gps satellite tracking device. Might turn out very interesting, because it´ll hopefully allow us to find out a little more about their routines and lives. Dear old Wikipedia writes nevertheless that only the male narwhals have a tusk on their head... while the documentary from WWF showed a researcher giving us an explanation about the (female) narwhal on which he´s placing a tracking device... and she clearly had a tusk!? So we obviously still need to learn A LOT about narwhals! To begin with; who´s wearing the tusk!??
As I don´t have any own narwhal pictures yet, another ocean inspired picture will have to do for this time... but for sights and sounds of narwhals you totally gotta check out the narwhal news network, because yes, aparantly they already went cyberspace long time ago...
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