{"id":377910,"date":"2026-04-06T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:24:07","slug":"gray-whale-dies-days-after-swimming-up-washingtons-willapa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/377910\/","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":377911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-377910","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\/377910","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=377910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}