{"id":408022,"date":"2026-07-22T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408022\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:06:08","slug":"morning-buzz-whale-watchers-catch-rare-sight-of-orcas-hunting-dolphins-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408022\/","title":{"rendered":"MORNING BUZZ: Whale watchers catch rare sight of orcas hunting dolphins in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTEREY BAY, Cali. \u2014 Passengers aboard a whale watching boat in central California were treated to a special show over the weekend in Monterey Bay. A pod of killer whales was spotted hunting a group of dolphins in a scene that is pretty rare for whale watchers. <\/p>\n<p>The passengers aboard a Sanctuary Cruises Boat spotted the battle where adult orcas can be seen ramming a dolphin with enough force to send it clean out of the water. The orca&#8217;s themselves were even seen going full airborne in the pursuit. <\/p>\n<p>Officials state that orca sightings in the area are relatively common, but for a vessel to witness this type of attack is pretty rare. <\/p>\n<p>See more: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTEREY BAY, Cali. \u2014 Passengers aboard a whale watching boat in central California were treated to a special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-408022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}