{"id":204817,"date":"2025-10-16T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:00:07","slug":"delight-over-reported-sighting-of-orca-calf-off-isles-of-scilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/204817\/","title":{"rendered":"Delight over reported sighting of orca calf off Isles of Scilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Matthews, of Dolphin Zone, who confirmed the July sighting of the Vega pod, said it was &#8220;quite an elusive pair that appears to pop up randomly in different places&#8221; and they had never been seen either with calves or other orcas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The species typically inhabits the Strait of Gibraltar in winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jay Cowen from the wildlife trust added: &#8220;This third orca is kind of perfect because it is so mysterious, as this pod of orca often is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really hoping it&#8217;s a brand new individual never seen before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Matthews, of Dolphin Zone, who confirmed the July sighting of the Vega pod, said it was &#8220;quite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-204817","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\/204817","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=204817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}