{"id":50081,"date":"2026-04-06T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gray-whale-dies-days-after-swimming-up-washingtons-willapa-river\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:26:14","slug":"gray-whale-dies-days-after-swimming-up-washingtons-willapa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gray-whale-dies-days-after-swimming-up-washingtons-willapa-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray whale dies days after swimming up Washington&#8217;s Willapa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Gray whales undertake long spring time migrations north up the Pacific Coast to feed in the Arctic using up their nutritional reserves along the way, John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gray-whale-dies-washington-river-ba070a4060f2f48f0e4533cc14b944b2\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 cDYatN\">told the Associated Press<\/a>. &#8220;When that happens, you often see gray whales in a more desperate search for new areas to feed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most likely context for this whale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cew7n4glz54o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray whales undertake long spring time migrations north up the Pacific Coast to feed in the Arctic using up their nutritional reserves along the way, John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, told the Associated Press. &#8220;When that happens, you often see gray whales in a more desperate search for new areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[139,1017,5917,1076,3511,14519,1459,14520],"class_list":["post-50081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-days","tag-dies","tag-gray","tag-river","tag-swimming","tag-washingtons","tag-whale","tag-willapa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50083,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50081\/revisions\/50083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}