{"id":215179,"date":"2025-12-28T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215179\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:06:09","slug":"body-of-sperm-whale-calf-dragged-to-costa-brava-beach-during-levanter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215179\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of sperm whale calf dragged to Costa Brava beach during levanter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a sperm whale calf, or cachalot, was dragged to the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro in the Costa Brava on Saturday afternoon during the days-long levanter storm.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was first spotted near the Alomar hotel on the beach, after being dragged due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalannews.com\/society-science\/item\/levanter-storm-catalan-shore-emergency-calls-27-december-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">maritime storm<\/a> recorded during the last days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31480457-2512-4fba-84b9-2d7c5b19ed31.jpg\" alt=\"The body of a sperm whale calf stranded on the beach of Platja d'Aro\"\/><br \/>\nThe body of a sperm whale calf stranded on the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro \/ Berta Artigas Font\u00e0s<\/p>\n<p>The Castell-Platja d&#8217;Aro city council warned the CRAM Maritime Foundation, in charge of rescuing maritime wildlife, as well as the Spanish Maritime Rescue units, so they could take care of the body of the sperm whale calf.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid curious people getting close to the body, local police were deployed on site to patrol the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b4e4446a-3365-41fd-9863-1dc54a502e21.jpg\" alt=\"Two people observe the body of a sperm whale calf on the beach of Platja d'Aro\"\/><br \/>\nTwo people observe the body of a sperm whale calf on the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro \/ Berta Artigas Font\u00e0s<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a sperm whale calf, or cachalot, was dragged to the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-215179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}