{"id":122498,"date":"2025-09-08T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122498\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:34:11","slug":"university-students-have-magical-encounter-with-pilot-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/122498\/","title":{"rendered":"University students have &#8216;magical encounter&#8217; with pilot whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A group of researchers had the &#8220;luck of a lifetime&#8221; after a close encounter with a group of pilot whales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers from the University of Plymouth were on a vessel which students board to conduct surveys on the marine animals along the South West coastline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the way back to the city, a student spotted a fin poking out of the water, over a nautical mile away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While approaching the group, the captain then cut the engine, which led to a special encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of researchers had the &#8220;luck of a lifetime&#8221; after a close encounter with a group of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-122498","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\/122498","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=122498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}