{"id":582794,"date":"2026-04-03T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:40:17","slug":"backshall-overjoyed-at-rare-sighting-of-orcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582794\/","title":{"rendered":"Backshall overjoyed at rare sighting of orcas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Wildlife explorer Steve Backshall was overjoyed to have spotted two of the UK&#8217;s last surviving orcas as he described them as &#8220;international celebrities&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Male killer whales John Coe and Aquarius are the last remaining members of the West Coast Community pod. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The bulls were seen off Lizard Point on Wednesday and filmed by the TV presenter, who lives near Penzance, in Cornwall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The brothers had last been seen off the west coast of Cornwall in May 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c33l5dngm45o\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife explorer Steve Backshall was overjoyed to have spotted two of the UK&#8217;s last surviving orcas as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-582794","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-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582794","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=582794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}