{"id":248577,"date":"2026-01-20T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248577\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:31:08","slug":"dead-porpoise-with-suspected-stillborn-calf-found-in-hong-kong-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248577\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead porpoise with suspected stillborn calf found in Hong Kong waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A dead porpoise, suspected to have been carrying a stillborn calf, was discovered in Hong Kong waters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said it had retrieved the carcass, which was identified as a finless porpoise, in the waters near Ap Chau, one of the city\u2019s outlying islands, on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It added that a necropsy would be conducted by veterinarians, with the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation to also investigate. The park confirmed it would assist with the case.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The mammal was spotted by boat captain Vincent Tong Chi-kin near Ap Chau in the morning. His vessel was conducting coastal clean-up work for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe spotted a grey-black object when steering from Lai Chi Wo to Ap Chau. It turned out to be the body of a mammal when we got close,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He added that the six-foot (1.8 metres) carcass was intact, with no visible scratches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead porpoise, suspected to have been carrying a stillborn calf, was discovered in Hong Kong waters on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[4386,132859,93702,75883,48791,3448,85,46,132861,43,81692,141,14857,132860,93706,1651,386],"class_list":["post-248577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-agriculture","tag-ap-chau-island","tag-david-baker","tag-dolphin","tag-fisheries-and-conservation-department","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mirs-bay","tag-news","tag-ocean-park","tag-science","tag-scmp","tag-stillborn-calf","tag-swire-institute-of-marine-science","tag-university-of-hong-kong","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}