{"id":117475,"date":"2025-09-06T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117475\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:01:06","slug":"rare-whale-likely-died-from-head-trauma-tests-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117475\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare whale likely died from head trauma, tests show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest, I didn&#8217;t think we were going to work out what happened to it because it was fairly decomposed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But towards the end of the exam, we found some haemorrhage and evidence trauma around the head, and I think that is significant,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s consistent with some form of physical trauma being a cause of that animal&#8217;s death but what caused it is impossible to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;It&#8217;s not a pattern of trauma I&#8217;ve seen before, we are speculating there was beach damage elsewhere, or something happened to it out there, we just don&#8217;t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest, I didn&#8217;t think we were going to work out what happened to it because it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-117475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}