More whale gas.
If you’re reading this story at the MINE website, steal a quick look down and to the right, at the list of our most popular blog posts. (If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, here’s a link to the MINE homepage.) What, pray tell, is MINE’s hottest excavation? A post about whale farts.

Today we bring you even more aquatic mammalian gassy goodness — but this time, it’s far cuter (and thank goodness, cleaner) than our past post. Feast your peepers on this charming National Geographic pic of a beluga whale blowing bubbles for the camera. Awww! Teh cute!
According to National Geographic, the whale learned this heartmeltingly sweet trick from Japanese scuba divers, who give it — and his two beluga buddies — breaths from regulators to enable the whales to blow the bubbles. The whales live in captivity.
Unlike the flatulence we recently reported about, this is not normal whale behavior.
Mined by: J.C. Hutchins
