{"id":500806,"date":"2026-10-19T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500806\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:34:07","slug":"beluga-whale-cyprus-dies-at-seaworld-san-diego-after-rescue-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500806\/","title":{"rendered":"Beluga whale Cyprus dies at SeaWorld San Diego after rescue \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year old beluga whale named Cyprus died at SeaWorld San Diego Sunday night, the organization said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seaworldsandiego\/posts\/pfbid033m5ihnWvcRw6Uwfcoz6t22fBzpLWy3GAGYc4mzsJAFw1PCz5vD2NXiH71aPJrgekl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beluga whale arrived at SeaWorld Aug. 22 from Canada. He was one of the three male belugas who were rescued from a closed Marineland park in Canada. <\/p>\n<p>The whales traveled over 2,500 miles in specialized cold-water transport units with a team of animal care specialists before arriving in San Diego. <\/p>\n<p>Cyprus&#8217; death was &#8220;unexpected&#8221; and he had stopped eating two days before his death, SeaWorld San Diego said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The organization added that &#8220;an ultrasound showed that his intestinal tract did not appear to be functioning normally and could indicate a serious life-threatening condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The post also said that a full necropsy will be conducted and the results will be shared with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The two other belugas, Xavier and Jasper, are in stable condition and continue to adjust to their surroundings, SeaWorld said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year old beluga whale named Cyprus died at SeaWorld San Diego Sunday night, the organization said in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,16192],"class_list":["post-500806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-seaworld-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500806","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=500806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}