From nwsource.com:

TACOMA — A thousand-pound, 6-year-old beluga whale arrived at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium early Sunday after a flight on a chartered military transport plane from his previous home at Chicagos John G. Shedd Aquarium.

Qannik, Inuit for snowflake, traveled tucked inside an enormous, foam-padded plastic glass tank in the DC-8 plane for a cross-country flight that cost $84,000, according to officials at the Tacoma aquarium.

All told, Point Defiance officials say they paid nearly $120,000 to bring their baby beluga to his new home.

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