Pulled out of France's River Seine after a perilous operation that lasted all night, the beluga is seen placed in the back of a lorry which, at dawn, took the road to Ouistreham port in Normandy, the next stage in the race against time...

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CLEAN: Exterior shots of two Beluga whales swimming in a holding pen in Iceland prior to their release from captivity on 28 September 2020 in the Westman Islands, Iceland

CLEAN: Exterior shots of two Beluga whales swimming in a holding pen in Iceland prior to their release from captivity on 28 September 2020 in the Westman Islands, Iceland

CLEAN: Exterior shots of two Beluga whales swimming in a holding pen in Iceland prior to their release from captivity on 28 September 2020 in the Westman Islands, Iceland

CLEAN: Exterior shots of two Beluga whales swimming in a holding pen in Iceland prior to their release from captivity on 28 September 2020 in the Westman Islands, Iceland

CLEAN: Exterior shots of two Beluga whales swimming in a holding pen in Iceland prior to their release from captivity on 28 September 2020 in the Westman Islands, Iceland

Firemen, gendarmes, marine wildlife experts and waterway and maritime transportation professionals: Some 60 people are mobilized in an attempt to rescue an ailing beluga whale that swam up the Seine river and return it to the sea...

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Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzt, deputy prefect of Evreux in Normandy, briefs journalists on the beluga's state of health (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Locals in the French seaside town of Ouistreham react after the announcement of the death of the stranded beluga whale, who was euthanised after spending days in the Seine river (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The beluga whale in France's Seine river is spotted ahead of an attempted extraction operation by marine experts, a complex and risky undertaking for an animal already sick and malnourished (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The beluga whale stranded in the Seine for a week had to be euthanised on Wednesday after its arrival in the seaside town of Ouistreham (Calvados) because of respiratory insufficiency, says Florence Ollivet-Courtois, colonel of the...

French marine experts launch an ambitious operation to rescue an ailing beluga whale that swam up the Seine river, to return it to the sea (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

A stranded beluga whale, which was discovered more than a week ago in France's Seine river, had to be euthanised upon arrival in the seaside town of Ouistreham (Calvados) after being transferred by truck from a lock in the Eure...

Veterinarians will "examine" the beluga whale spotted in France's Seine river and "administer (...) products likely to whet its appetite," says the General Secretary of the Eure region Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet during a press briefing...

The beluga whale stranded in the Seine river "has been sick for a long time," says the secretary general of the Eure prefecture, Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet, during a press briefing in front of the lock where the beluga whale is located...

"The question of euthanasia has been ruled out at this stage," says Sea Shepherd France President Lamya Essemlali, as the NGO and French authorities prolong their attempts to rescue a beluga whale stranded in the Seine river (Footage by...

Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet, deputy prefect of Evreux, mentioned the possibility of "moving back into the sea" the four-metre long beluga whale spotted in France's River Seine since last Tuesday (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The rescue operation of a beluga whale stranded for the past week in France's River Seine will be undertaken on Tuesday evening (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)