\n The discovery was made by a walker on Felixstowe beach and the pictures shared online this morning.\n<\/p>\n
\n The marine mammal is most likely a harbour porpoise, because of its small size and blunt head, compared to the “beak” of a dolphin.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are found all around the UK coastline, with them being spotted close to the shore in shallow water.\n<\/p>\n
\n Strong winds and rough waters can lead to the mammals washing up on the shores.\n<\/p>\n
\n A dolphin washed up on the Suffolk coast last year. (Image: Kristina McKiernan)\n<\/p>\n
\n Last February, a porpoise<\/a> was also found on a beach in Felixstowe, the body of an adult seal<\/a> was found in Southwold, and a common dolphin washed up<\/a> in Kessingland.\n<\/p>\n \n If you find a deceased animal on a beach, it should be reported to the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme on 0800 652 0333.\n<\/p>\n \n You should give a description of the location and date found, overall length, condition of the animal, as well as your contact details, should further information be needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discovery was made by a walker on Felixstowe beach and the pictures shared online this morning. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-416698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416698","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=416698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}