A dead porpoise, suspected to have been carrying a stillborn calf, was discovered in Hong Kong waters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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
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
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
\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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6689,142461,84522,67917,102979,4431,142463,111,43,139,69,90862,147,22069,142462,102981,11038,406],"class_list":["post-242723","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-mirs-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242723","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=242723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}