{"id":720532,"date":"2026-07-31T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:56:16","slug":"spectacular-moment-hump-back-whale-leaps-out-of-water-near-new-york-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/720532\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectacular moment hump back whale leaps out of water near New York | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have documented the spectacular moment a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/humpback-whales\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">humpback whales<\/a> leapt out of the water near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shows the group of whales emerging from the water 25 miles south of Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also witnessed fin whales lunging through schools of fish, minke whales feeding just below the surface, and dolphins riding their boat&#8217;s bow waves.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists said that the New York Bight, one of the busiest marine ecosystems in North America, is becoming a popular habitat for whales and other marine animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDays like this remind us just how extraordinary -and important &#8211; the New York Bight is and has become,\u201d said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Executive Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s New York Bight programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have documented the spectacular moment a group of humpback whales leapt out of the water near New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[18760,40018,23128,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-720532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-file","tag-file-photo","tag-photo","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720532","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=720532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}