{"id":3926,"date":"2020-10-21T08:59:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T08:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?page_id=3926"},"modified":"2020-10-21T09:08:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:08:36","slug":"hagfish-day-star-giant-frigatebird","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?page_id=3926","title":{"rendered":"Hagfish Day Star: Melon-headed Whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3927 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale--1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale--1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Hagfish-Day-WhaleTimes-Melon-headed-Whale-.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here\u2019s a dolphin you might not know about. The social melon-headed whale hangs out in the deep tropical waters throughout the world. It\u2019s common to find them in groups of 200 to 500 animals and sometimes in larger groups of more than 1,000 whales.<\/p>\n<p>Their common name describes their lovely round melon. Unlike many dolphins, the melon-headed whale does not have a beak. Look closely and you\u2019ll see that melon-headed whales have a dark mask and some have white lips. This smaller whale reaches lengths up to 9 feet long.<\/p>\n<p>Melon-headed whales might be the life of the sea party. They are often seen hanging out with bottlenose dolphins, Fraser&#8217;s dolphins, rough-toothed dolphins, spinner dolphins, spotted dolphins, and short-finned pilot whales.<\/p>\n<p>Melon-headed whales hunt at night in deeper water. They eat squid, fish, shrimp, and cuttlefish. These deep divers routinely dive 700 to 800 ft. The maximum recorded diving depth is 1,547 ft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?page_id=171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to Hagfish Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) Here\u2019s a dolphin you might not know about. The social melon-headed whale hangs out in the deep tropical waters throughout the world. It\u2019s common to find them in groups of 200 to 500 animals and sometimes in larger groups of more than 1,000 whales. Their common name describes their lovely round &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?page_id=3926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":171,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3926","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3926\/revisions\/3929"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}