{"id":801183,"date":"2026-03-03T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:32:15","slug":"deep-sea-whale-strands-on-central-auckland-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/801183\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea whale strands on central Auckland beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>3 Mar, 2026 04:14 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"m-0\">Share this article<\/p>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Twitter\/X<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 list-none\">Reddit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Project Jonah marine mammal medics and Department of Conservation staff respond to the stranding of a Shepherd\u2019s beaked whale at St Heliers. Photo \/ Project Jonah New Zealand<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A whale has stranded on St Heliers Beach in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Project Jonah, alongside the Department of Conservation (DoC), responded after a Shepherd\u2019s beaked whale was spotted late this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Spokeswoman Louisa Hawkes said Shepherd\u2019s beaked whales lived in the deep sea, and only came<br \/>\n         up to shore if something was wrong.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"NxxoOInEdsczGtg\" style=\"display:none\">Massey University\u2019s Cetacean Ecology Research Group had done an initial assessment of the whale, but needed to assess it further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 3 Mar, 2026 04:14 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[10910,1425,7476,232253,254,70,232254,16,15,22023,1717],"class_list":["post-801183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-auckland","tag-beach","tag-central","tag-deepsea","tag-on","tag-science","tag-strands","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-whale","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116165263035019698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}