{"id":47996,"date":"2015-08-25T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=47996"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T21:21:16","slug":"stop-what-youre-doing-watch-this-whale-do-a-backflip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/stop-what-youre-doing-watch-this-whale-do-a-backflip\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop What You&#8217;re Doing &#038; Watch This Whale do a Backflip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whale watchers got a once-in-a-lifetime <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/baby-whale-born-at-ga-aquarium-dies\/\">experience<\/a> off the coast of Nova Scotia, where they saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/baby-whale-born-at-ga-aquarium-dies\/\">humpback whale<\/a> do a backflip straight toward their boat!<\/p>\n<p>The whale <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/baby-whale-born-at-ga-aquarium-dies\/\">breached dozens of times<\/a> to the delight of the tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/baby-whale-born-at-ga-aquarium-dies\/\">say<\/a> whales breach for a number of reasons including knocking parasites off, scaring fish to eat and communication.<\/p>\n<p>But the boaters think the humpback was just having fun.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KVUi1KBVueE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/dramatic-video-great-white-shark-leaps-out-of-water-to-catch-seal-watch\/\">WATCH NEXT: &#8216;Great White Shark Leaps Out of Water to Catch Seal&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whale watchers got a once-in-a-lifetime experience off the coast of Nova Scotia, where they saw a humpback whale do a backflip straight toward their boat! The whale breached dozens of times to the delight of the tourists. Scientists say whales breach for a number of reasons including knocking parasites off, scaring fish to eat and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":47997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[37,46],"tags":[2337,2338,2340,2339],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stop What You&#039;re Doing &amp; Watch This Whale do a Backflip - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/stop-what-youre-doing-watch-this-whale-do-a-backflip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop What You&#039;re Doing &amp; Watch This Whale do a Backflip - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whale watchers got a once-in-a-lifetime experience off the coast of Nova Scotia, where they saw a humpback whale do a backflip straight toward their boat! 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