{"id":88798,"date":"2025-08-24T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88798\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:59:09","slug":"swimmers-urged-to-avoid-boisterous-dolphin-in-dorsets-lyme-bay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88798\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers urged to avoid &#8216;boisterous&#8217; dolphin in Dorset&#8217;s Lyme Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Sandeman urged both locals and visitors to the area to stay out of the water where Reggie has been spotted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think if they move even a quarter of the mile down the coast, that would help,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s not adult yet, so over the coming months he will get bigger, he will become more powerful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most whales and dolphins are highly social and live in pods with their own kind &#8211; but  some individuals, like Reggie, become solitary for reasons that are unclear, according to the charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That can cause problems when they eventually become used to people, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Sandeman urged both locals and visitors to the area to stay out of the water where Reggie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-88798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798","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=88798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}