{"id":36076,"date":"2021-08-28T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/bill-and-tags-excellent-adventure-a-year-in-the-life-of-one-southern-right-whale"},"modified":"2021-08-28T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T20:00:17","slug":"bill-and-tags-excellent-adventure-a-year-in-the-life-of-one-southern-right-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36076","title":{"rendered":"Bill and tag\u2019s excellent adventure: A year in the life of one southern right whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A satellite tag which unexpectedly kept working for a year has followed one whale\u2019s 15,000km journey across three oceans<\/p>\n<p>A loud bang shatters the winter calm of Port Ross, in New Zealand\u2019s remote Auckland Islands, and the small inflatable boat is rocked by the swirl of a 40-ton whale being swallowed up by the cold, dark water.<\/p>\n<p>When it resurfaces, the team of scientists are happy to see their US$3,200 satellite tag securely fixed to his side. The whale, whom they have nicknamed \u201cBill\u201d, slips away into the ocean, the tag transmitting his movements. A few days later, researchers watch as he starts heading west towards Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/bill-and-tags-excellent-adventure-a-year-in-the-life-of-one-southern-right-whale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A satellite tag which unexpectedly kept working for a year has followed one whale\u2019s 15,000km journey across three oceansA loud bang shatters the winter calm of Port Ross, in New Zealand\u2019s remote Auckland Islands, and the small inflatable boat is rocked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,1746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-whales","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36077,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36076\/revisions\/36077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}