{"id":723849,"date":"2026-06-08T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723849\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:00:09","slug":"rescue-group-encounters-unusual-whale-behaviour-after-freeing-entangled-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/723849\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue Group Encounters Unusual Whale Behaviour After Freeing Entangled Leviathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/whale-release-and-strandings-humpback-trapped-bay-bulls.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Rescue Group Encounters Unusual Whale Behaviour After Freeing Entangled Leviathan\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Julie Huntington<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whalereleaseandstrandings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whale Release and Strandings Group <\/a>is used to a lot of whale behaviour, but witnessed something new during a rescue in Conception Bay last week. <\/p>\n<p>Julie Huntington says they were cutting a humpback free from gear entangled around its body when the whale did something they\u2019ve never seen before. <\/p>\n<p>She says after they cut the gear from the animal, it turned onto its back and stayed like that for a period of time, showing them its belly. \u201cWe were like, \u2018wow, that\u2019s really unusual.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huntington says some people believe it was the whale\u2019s way of saying thank you, but she\u2019s not sure what the animal was doing. <\/p>\n<p>She believes that it knew it was no longer entangled, and was trying to get its equilibrium back. She says after they removed another few pieces of gear from around the whale\u2019s mouth, \u201cit went on.\u201d   <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Photo via Julie Huntington The Whale Release and Strandings Group is used to a lot of whale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-723849","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\/723849","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=723849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}