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Beethoven is a male, 14 year old, Beluga whale at the Point Defiance Zoo (PDZ) in Tacoma, Washington. He has just recovered from an illness, and veterinarians from the PDZ and Sea World provided the whale with intensive treatments that paid off. The doctors say they are seeing normal behavior and body weight once again. He has regained all his weight and then some, weighing in at 1,600 pounds. Part of his treatment included hand feeding him gruel laced with calorie-rich salmon oil for nutrition to ragain his weight back which was very successful. Unfortunatly though, Beethoven is going to go back to Sea World in California in June and will be missed by everyone here in Washington.



By: Jordan Warner