{"id":567648,"date":"2026-05-05T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567648\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:03:08","slug":"dolphin-returns-towards-sea-after-escaping-allington-lock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/567648\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin returns towards sea after escaping Allington lock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A dolphin that had become trapped in a lock on the River Medway, Kent, has managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dolphin, which was said to be in good condition when inspected by divers from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, was spotted in Rochester on Tuesday morning, closer to the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julia Cable, operations director at the charity, said that animals did pass through the lock &#8220;now and then&#8221;, but that it was &#8220;unusual&#8221; for a dolphin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Generally, common dolphins are found in deeper water and stay out of smaller rivers, she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dolphin that had become trapped in a lock on the River Medway, Kent, has managed to escape.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-567648","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\/567648","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=567648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}