{"id":255939,"date":"2025-12-29T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255939\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:39:11","slug":"body-of-sperm-whale-calf-dragged-to-costa-brava-beach-during-levanter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/255939\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of sperm whale calf dragged to Costa Brava beach during levanter storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a <strong>sperm whale calf<\/strong>, or cachalot, was dragged to the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro in the Costa Brava on Saturday afternoon during the days-long levanter storm.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was first spotted near the Alomar hotel on the beach, after being dragged due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catalannews.com\/society-science\/item\/levanter-storm-catalan-shore-emergency-calls-27-december-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">maritime storm<\/a> recorded during the last days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/31480457-2512-4fba-84b9-2d7c5b19ed31.jpg\" alt=\"The body of a sperm whale calf stranded on the beach of Platja d'Aro\"\/><br \/>\nThe body of a sperm whale calf stranded on the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro \/ Berta Artigas Font\u00e0s<\/p>\n<p>The Castell-Platja d&#8217;Aro city council warned the <strong>CRAM Maritime Foundation<\/strong>, in charge of rescuing maritime wildlife, as well as the Spanish Maritime Rescue units, so they could take care of the body of the sperm whale calf.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid curious people <strong>getting close to the body<\/strong>, local police were deployed on site to patrol the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b4e4446a-3365-41fd-9863-1dc54a502e21.jpg\" alt=\"Two people observe the body of a sperm whale calf on the beach of Platja d'Aro\"\/><br \/>\nTwo people observe the body of a sperm whale calf on the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro \/ Berta Artigas Font\u00e0s<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a sperm whale calf, or cachalot, was dragged to the beach of Platja d&#8217;Aro in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,133,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-255939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115802430709022657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}