{"id":384720,"date":"2026-04-06T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:33:07","slug":"gray-whale-dies-days-after-swimming-up-washingtons-willapa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384720\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray whale dies days after swimming up Washington&#8217;s Willapa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Gray whales undertake long spring time migrations north up the Pacific Coast to feed in the Arctic using up their nutritional reserves along the way, John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gray-whale-dies-washington-river-ba070a4060f2f48f0e4533cc14b944b2\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the Associated Press<\/a>. &#8220;When that happens, you often see gray whales in a more desperate search for new areas to feed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most likely context for this whale.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gray whales undertake long spring time migrations north up the Pacific Coast to feed in the Arctic using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-384720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384720","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=384720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}