{"id":948372,"date":"2026-10-27T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:02:16","slug":"it-brought-tears-to-my-eyes-drone-footage-shows-elusive-animal-with-a-tooth-as-long-as-a-car-swimming-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948372\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It brought tears to my eyes.&#8221; Drone footage shows elusive animal with a tooth as long as a car swimming in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people can only dream of seeing a rare and elusive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/narwhal-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">narwhal<\/a>\u00a0but cinematographer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mywildlive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Gregus<\/a>\u00a0had a magical encounter with these mysterious animals thanks to his drone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSeeing them from the air for the first time brought tears to my eyes,\u201d said Gregus, who shared his video on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DDbsErQRtBX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gregus described a narwhal sighting like \u201cseeing a unicorn, it&#8217;s magical\u201d. The timid animals are typically scared off by any disturbance in the water, making it \u201calmost impossible\u201d to get shots of the from the water, he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Narwhals are elusive and timid creatures, so catching them on film is rare. Credit: Martin Gregus<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey appear out of the blue so gently and quietly that you could miss them, and then they disappear beneath the waves in the same way making you wonder about what it is that you just saw,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/what-is-a-narwhal-tusk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">narwhal tusk<\/a>, most commonly seen on males, is an enlarged tooth that can grow up to 10 feet (more than three metres) long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Narwhals are known for being very shy. \u201cFor years they have been and remain hunted so they try their best to keep a low profile which makes it very difficult to catch up with them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image and video credit: Martin Gregus @mywildlive and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matkopictures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">www.matkopictures.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people can only dream of seeing a rare and elusive\u00a0narwhal\u00a0but cinematographer\u00a0Martin Gregus\u00a0had a magical encounter with these&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-948372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}