{"id":1024641,"date":"2026-08-26T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1024641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:30:28","slug":"young-humpback-calf-found-dead-in-maine-was-emaciated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1024641\/","title":{"rendered":"Young humpback calf found dead in Maine was emaciated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young humpback whale calf found in Maine river was severely emaciated<\/p>\n<p>Marine Mammals of Maine says the young female calf had very little muscle or fat and few stomach contents<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787722228_273_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">PHIPPSBURG, Maine \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Marine Mammals of Maine stranding hotline received a report of a deceased humpback whale in the New Meadows River in Phippsburg on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">MMoME performed a full internal and external evaluation that found the 20-foot female calf was emaciated and had very little muscle or fat and few stomach contents. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The findings showed that the whale was between 6 and 9 months old and still maternally dependent. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">MMoME said that samples they collected will be sent for histopathology and that there were no other gross necropsy findings. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;This was an incredibly sad case, but we are grateful for the opportunity to document her life and passing,&#8221; said MMoME in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">MMoME went on to recognize the help they received from the community for transporting the whale and conducting the necropsy.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young humpback whale calf found in Maine river was severely emaciated Marine Mammals of Maine says the young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1024642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[409964,28331,409966,12810,409956,409963,19597,3614,28946,409957,2252,409965,2741,409954,409958,409960,409962,409955,1630,159,67,132,68,31918,837,409959,409961],"class_list":["post-1024641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-deceased-humpback-whale","tag-emaciated","tag-external-evaluation","tag-fat","tag-female-calf-emaciated","tag-few-stomach-content","tag-friday-afternoon","tag-hotline","tag-humpback-whale","tag-juvenile-whale","tag-life","tag-little-muscle","tag-maine","tag-maine-river","tag-marine-mammals-of-maine","tag-mmome","tag-new-meadows-river","tag-phippsburg","tag-report","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-whale","tag-wildlife","tag-young-humpback","tag-young-humpback-calf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117160172385512763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}