{"id":154687,"date":"2025-11-26T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/154687\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:16:17","slug":"pygmy-sperm-whale-found-dead-on-aucklands-north-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/154687\/","title":{"rendered":"Pygmy sperm whale found dead on Auckland&#8217;s North Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JXCHBN_Media_1_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"A whale washed up on Orewa Beach on Wednesday, 26 November 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA whale washed up on \u014crewa Beach on Wednesday.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Maddi Newson\n<\/p>\n<p>A pygmy sperm whale has been found dead on the shores of \u014crewa in Auckland&#8217;s North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that DOC is responding to the body of a pygmy sperm whale at \u014crewa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point I have few other details,&#8221; Department of Conservation spokesperson Nicole Steven said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JXCHBN_Media_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"A whale washed up on Orewa Beach on Wednesday, 26 November 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA whale washed up on \u014crewa Beach on Wednesday.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Maddi Newson\n<\/p>\n<p>Steven said they don&#8217;t know the cause of death yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This info would require a necropsy,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whale washed up on \u014crewa Beach on Wednesday. Photo: Supplied \/ Maddi Newson A pygmy sperm whale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-154687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}