{"id":299649,"date":"2017-04-11T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fc17e974e866e20a7d987059d6a42428"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:48:38","slug":"study-clarifies-how-many-dolphins-there-are-in-hong-kong-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=299649","title":{"rendered":"Study clarifies how many dolphins there are in Hong Kong waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) delivered the first-ever comprehensive population assessment of the Chinese white dolphins that inhabit Hong Kong waters, and what they found differs from the common public belief. In fact &#8220;it differs very substantially from the estimates reported in Hong Kong for the past many years,&#8221; said Dr. Leszek Karczmarski, Associate Professor at the Swire Institute of Marine Science and School of Biological Sciences, HKU, who has instigated and supervised this study. &#8220;Contrary to statements frequently repeated by various Hong Kong media, there is no such thing as &#8216;Hong Kong dolphin population&#8217; &#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) delivered the first-ever comprehensive population assessment of the Chinese white dolphins that inhabit Hong Kong waters, and what they found differs from the common public belief. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299650,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299649\/revisions\/299650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}