{"id":171229,"date":"2025-09-26T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171229\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:17:08","slug":"much-loved-port-river-dolphin-rocket-found-with-life-ending-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171229\/","title":{"rendered":"Much-loved Port River dolphin Rocket found with life-ending injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The locally iconic Port River dolphin, Rocket, was found dead last night.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran dolphin researcher, Dr Mike Bossley, called Jo Laverty to tell her the cause of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s a very well-known dolphin locally,&#8221; Dr Bossley reflected.<\/p>\n<p>Marianna Boorman has been documenting Rocket\u2019s life from the day she was born, and mother Ripple before that. \u201cI am angry, and grief stricken\u201d, she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The locally iconic Port River dolphin, Rocket, was found dead last night. Veteran dolphin researcher, Dr Mike Bossley,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,6345,111694,111695,6355,22924,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-171229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dolphin","11":"tag-dr-mike-bossley","12":"tag-marine-death","13":"tag-port-river","14":"tag-rocket","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}