{"id":242113,"date":"2026-08-03T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/rare-footage-of-humpback-whale-birth-captured-on-drone-video-a-remarkable-moment"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:05:59","slug":"rare-footage-of-humpback-whale-birth-captured-on-drone-video-a-remarkable-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/rare-footage-of-humpback-whale-birth-captured-on-drone-video-a-remarkable-moment","title":{"rendered":"Rare footage of humpback whale birth captured on drone video: \u201cA remarkable moment\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-footage-of-humpback-whale-birth-captured-on-drone-video-a-remarkable-moment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forrest was joined by members of ORRCA\u2019s team, who continued to monitor the mother and calf over several hours, \u201ccollecting observations during the critical first hours of the calf\u2019s life,\u201d the organization said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The footage is believed to be only the fourth complete humpback whale birth ever recorded on film anywhere in the world and the first-ever captured by drone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery observation like this has the potential to expand our understanding of humpback whale reproduction, maternal behaviour and the earliest stages of a calf\u2019s life,\u201d ORRCA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrest was joined by members of ORRCA\u2019s team, who continued to monitor the mother and calf over several hours, \u201ccollecting observations during the critical first hours of the calf\u2019s life,\u201d the organization said on social media. The footage is believed to be only the fourth complete humpback whale birth ever recorded on film anywhere in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}