{"id":714827,"date":"2026-07-28T05:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714827\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:57:32","slug":"sperm-whales-blow-bubbles-to-help-them-sleep-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/714827\/","title":{"rendered":"Sperm whales blow bubbles to help them sleep scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest in an upright position. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists think this helps them avoid being disturbed by waves at the surface while also saving energy compared with staying deep underwater. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, until now, experts were unsure how the whales managed to stay in the same spot while they rested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new discovery was made by an international team of researchers from the University of St Andrew&#8217;s in Scotland and the Universite\u0301 de Neucha\u0302tel in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team used special tags attached to sperm whales, which recorded the animals&#8217; movements and sounds as they rested in the sea near the coast of Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sperm whales are the only whales known to rest in an upright position. Scientists think this helps them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-714827","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\/714827","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=714827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}