{"id":578070,"date":"2026-04-02T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:22:07","slug":"backshall-overjoyed-at-rare-sighting-of-orcas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/578070\/","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":578071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-578070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}