{"id":59254,"date":"2025-08-11T05:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59254\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T05:25:07","slug":"pod-of-23-pilot-whales-found-dead-after-mass-stranding-in-orkney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59254\/","title":{"rendered":"Pod of 23 pilot whales found dead after mass stranding in Orkney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A pod of 23 pilot whales have died after a mass stranding in Orkney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The mammals were discovered on the island of Sanday on Sunday but it appears they may have been dead for several days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A full investigation into the stranding will now take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Last summer <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3g6xzrxy35o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">77 pilot whales washed ashore<\/a> on the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">About a dozen that were still alive were euthanised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The carcasses were later buried at multiple land sites, which were approved after tests were carried out to prevent any possible disturbance to archaeological sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The pod included male whales up to seven metres (22ft) long as well as females, calves and juveniles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pod of 23 pilot whales have died after a mass stranding in Orkney. The mammals were discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-59254","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\/59254","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=59254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}