{"id":801496,"date":"2026-07-15T08:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801496\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:56:18","slug":"spotting-whales-no-fluke-otago-daily-times-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/801496\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting whales no fluke | Otago Daily Times Online News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pod of humpback whales were having a swimmingly good time in Otago Harbour yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The whales were spotted between Wellers Rock and Harington Point.<\/p>\n<p>University of Otago Marine Studies Centre curator Aaron Heimann said it was not uncommon to see humpback whales in the harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The whales were likely taking a short detour into the harbour as part of their annual migration from the southern polar waters to warmer areas in the north where they would mate and give birth, Mr Heimann said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018There\u2019s been a few whales sighted off the coast \u2014 quite active humpbacks breaching and things \u2014 in recent days and weeks.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pod of humpback whales were having a swimmingly good time in Otago Harbour yesterday. The whales were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-801496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801496","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=801496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}