{"id":744348,"date":"2026-08-20T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744348\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:28:10","slug":"elusive-deep-diving-whale-washes-up-on-south-of-scotland-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744348\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive deep-diving whale washes up on south of Scotland beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A deep-diving beaked whale has died after becoming stranded on a beach in the south of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff at a nearby hotel raised the alarm after spotting the animal in Balcary Bay near Auchencairn earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is believed to be a Sowerby&#8217;s beaked whale and the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) hopes to carry out an examination in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The whales are a deep-diving species, rarely seen at sea and can spend long periods underwater hunting squid and fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deep-diving beaked whale has died after becoming stranded on a beach in the south of Scotland. Staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-744348","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\/744348","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=744348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}