{"id":71427,"date":"2016-02-27T09:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71427"},"modified":"2016-02-27T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:48:45","slug":"orca-calf-born-to-endangered-b-c-population-is-missing-presumed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/27\/orca-calf-born-to-endangered-b-c-population-is-missing-presumed-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Orca calf born to endangered B.C. population is missing, presumed dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70724\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whale-vancouver-aquarium.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70724\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70724\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whale-vancouver-aquarium.png\" alt=\"Orca  (Photo courtesy of the official Twitter account of Vancouver Aquarium)\" width=\"614\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whale-vancouver-aquarium.png 614w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/whale-vancouver-aquarium-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: An orca calf named J55 is missing and presumed dead.<br \/>(Photo courtesy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanaqua\" target=\"_blank\">official Twitter account of Vancouver Aquarium<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014Scientists say the newest member of an endangered population of killer whales that travel the waters off British Columbia and Washington state appears to have died.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-based Center for Whale Research says the orca calf, named J55, is missing and presumed dead.<\/p>\n<p>J55 was first documented swimming with a pod of southern-resident killer whales on Jan. 18 in Puget Sound, along the northwest coast of Washington state.<\/p>\n<p>The calf was not seen again during a sighting of the pod in the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Jan. 19 and another sighting on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Giles of the Center for Whale Research says the loss of any calf is a blow to the struggling population, but it&#8217;s not entirely surprising because up to half of newborn orcas do not survive their first year.<\/p>\n<p>The endangered southern-resident killer whales are currently having a baby boom, with more than eight new calves born over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014Scientists say the newest member of an endangered population of killer whales that travel the waters off British Columbia and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5927,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-environment-nature","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}