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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada released footage Friday, announcing ground-breaking research that confirms the ocean species B次元官网网址� also known as sea unicorns B次元官网网址� use its tusks to feed.

Through aerial footage shot with drones, scientists were able to watch tusked narwhals approaching schools of arctic cod, tracking the cod with the tusk, and then, as the cod was positioned close to the tip of the tusk, the narwhals giving it a quick hard tap that stunned the fish before they would move in to suck in the prey.

Narwhals are classified as B次元官网网址渟pecial concernB次元官网网址� by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. The species is federally protected and live in the Arctic Ocean near Nunavut, but are also being considered for listing under the federal Species at Risk Act.

ashley.wadhwani@bpdigital.ca
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