{"id":158237,"date":"2025-09-24T21:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158237\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:14:07","slug":"stranded-silloth-dolphins-two-saved-but-adult-and-calf-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158237\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded Silloth dolphins: Two saved but adult and calf die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The tide came in a bit quicker than we expected&#8221; Ms Neil said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But we watched from a distance as the pair disappeared into the darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At dawn on Tuesday morning the volunteers returned to retrieve the body of the deceased adult dolphin although the calf&#8217;s body had disappeared. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really important that people call us as soon as they find a marine mammal in distress,&#8221; Ms Neil said, stressing that it requires expertise to safely assist the animals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes, sadly, they are too sick to be put back in the sea but in this case at least some of the family survived.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The tide came in a bit quicker than we expected&#8221; Ms Neil said. &#8220;But we watched from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-158237","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\/158237","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=158237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}