{"id":35473,"date":"2025-09-24T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35473\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:59:12","slug":"breaching-humpback-whale-captured-on-video-in-san-francisco-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35473\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaching Humpback Whale Captured On Video In San Francisco Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A photographer in the Bay Area recorded a whale breaching Friday afternoon in San Francisco Bay between Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/video-photographer-captures-breaching-whale-from-golden-gate-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to KRON<\/a>, which published the footage.<\/p>\n<p>The whale recorded by photographer George Kaskanlian is a humpback, the Marine Mammal Center confirmed to KRON.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA whale breaching is among the most spectacular behaviors you can see in nature,\u201d according to the center\u2019s website. \u201cDuring a breach, the whale propels itself out of the water in either a spinning or non-spinning motion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breaching is suspected to be a way for whales to communicate with other whales, as the splash can be heard for miles underwater, according to the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A photographer in the Bay Area recorded a whale breaching Friday afternoon in San Francisco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-35473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473","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=35473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}