{"id":11868,"date":"2021-12-02T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=11868"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:46","slug":"confirmed-by-carletons-shane-gero-rare-white-sperm-whale-like-moby-dick-captured-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/confirmed-by-carletons-shane-gero-rare-white-sperm-whale-like-moby-dick-captured-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed by Carleton&#8217;s Shane Gero, Rare white sperm whale \u2014 like Moby Dick \u2014 captured on video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Confirmed by Carleton&#8217;s Shane Gero, Rare white sperm whale \u2014 like Moby Dick \u2014 captured on video\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>A sperm whale with the same rare colouring as the fictional Moby Dick has been spotted off the coast of Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video of the white whale was posted on Facebook Tuesday by SOS Dolfijn, a rescue organization for stranded whales and dolphins based in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"inread-wrapper-id-1958965\"><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The distant, blurry video&nbsp;shows some of the whale&#8217;s white skin and vapour spouting from the whale&#8217;s blowhole as it surfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/science\/white-sperm-whale-1.6269833\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sperm whale with the same rare colouring as the fictional Moby Dick has been spotted off the coast of Jamaica. A video of the white whale was posted on Facebook Tuesday by SOS Dolfijn, a rescue organization for stranded whales and dolphins based in the Netherlands. The distant, blurry video&nbsp;shows some of the whale&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}