{"id":41856,"date":"2023-11-16T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=41856"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:11:03","slug":"the-adaptability-of-killer-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2023\/11\/the-adaptability-of-killer-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adaptability of Killer Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(thebrighterside.news) &#8211; Killer whales (orcas) have been in the news for the past few years due to the number of sailboats off the coast of Portugal having run-ins with the whales, including the sinking of a sailboat earlier this month. Researchers have been documenting activities of the whales which appear to showcase their adapability and intelligence. In 2019 they observed a pod of orcas hunting the Earth&#8217;s largest animal, the blue whale. They have also observed the whales kidnapping baby pilot whales. Scientists note that social learning plays a large role in the orcas&#8217;s behavior which might account for their new hunting methods. <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.cruisingcompass.com\/t\/r-l-tizulkl-kdujssdd-a\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(thebrighterside.news) &#8211; Killer whales (orcas) have been in the news for the past few years due to the number of sailboats off the coast of Portugal having run-ins with the whales, including the sinking of a sailboat earlier this month. Researchers have been documenting activities of the whales which appear to showcase their adapability and intelligence. In 2019 they observed a pod of orcas hunting the Earth&#8217;s largest animal, the blue whale. They have also observed the whales kidnapping baby pilot whales. Scientists note that social learning plays a large role in the orcas&#8217;s behavior which might account for their new hunting methods. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41857,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41856\/revisions\/41857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}