{"id":141386,"date":"2019-07-21T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/pilot-whales-strand-on-iceland-beach-in-group-of-50-or-more\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:31:49","slug":"pilot-whales-strand-on-iceland-beach-in-group-of-50-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/pilot-whales-strand-on-iceland-beach-in-group-of-50-or-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot whales strand on Iceland beach in group of 50 or more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nTourists and a pilot on a helicopter sightseeing tour of Iceland have found dozens of dead whales on a remote beach in Iceland.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nDavid Schwarzhans, a pilot for Reykjav\u00edk Helicopters, said he and his passengers counted 50 long-finned pilot whales washed up on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in western Iceland on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nSchwarzhans said &#8220;there might have been more. Some were already buried in sand.&#8221; He says the whales were concentrated in one spot and described it as &#8220;a very sad scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe whales are believed to have swum ashore at the same time and died of dehydration.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe pilot whale is notorious for stranding in mass numbers, for reasons that are not entirely understood.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nLast year, locals got a large group of whales to turn away from a spot on the opposite side of the peninsula.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Travel\/wireStory\/pilot-whales-strand-iceland-beach-group-50-64447548\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Tourists and a pilot on a helicopter sightseeing tour of Iceland have found dozens of dead whales on a remote beach in Iceland. David Schwarzhans, a pilot for Reykjav\u00edk Helicopters, said he and his passengers counted 50 long-finned pilot whales washed up on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula in western Iceland on Thursday. Schwarzhans said &#8220;there &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5887,97516,92889,3557,92218,23111,92761,17165,93256,6666,94572,94571,70297,94573,92503,95683],"class_list":["post-141386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-animals","tag-coastlines-and-beaches","tag-environment-and-nature","tag-europe","tag-general-news","tag-iceland","tag-leisure-travel","tag-lifestyle","tag-sightseeing","tag-travel","tag-travel-information","tag-travel-news","tag-travel-tips","tag-vacation-tips","tag-western-europe","tag-whales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}