{"id":468701,"date":"2026-09-19T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468701\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:40:08","slug":"humpback-whale-spotted-in-a-ca-river-60-miles-from-its-pacific-ocean-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468701\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback Whale Spotted In A CA River, 60 Miles From Its Pacific Ocean Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humpback whales are among the largest animals on Earth and can weigh up to 80,000 pounds (35,287 kilograms). They are known for their dramatic lunges at the water&#8217;s surface, an activity called breaching, and their complex underwater songs.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the whale so far upriver was a thrill, Glover said. The animal seemed in good shape despite being far from home, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came up and went down in fairly regular intervals,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was moving along at a fair clip. It wasn&#8217;t acting erratically other than that it was upstream in a freshwater river.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By TERRY CHEA and PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humpback whales are among the largest animals on Earth and can weigh up to 80,000 pounds (35,287 kilograms).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-468701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468701","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=468701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}