{"id":283404,"date":"2025-11-14T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283404\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:40:07","slug":"stowaway-seal-seeks-refuge-from-orcas-on-photographers-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/283404\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway seal seeks refuge from orcas on photographer&#8217;s boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A seal that was being hunted by a pod of orcas has made a narrow escape, after it sought refuge on the boat of US photographer Charvet Drucker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The amateur wildlife photographer told Associated Press that she was snapping photos of orcas off Camano Island in Washington, when she noticed the pod displaying the tell-tale signs of a hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Shortly after, a seal hopped aboard her vessel in effort in an attempt to avoid being eaten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Drucker said that the orcas eventually gave up the chase after approximately 20 minutes, and the seal was able to make a safe exit from the boat closer to shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seal that was being hunted by a pod of orcas has made a narrow escape, after it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-283404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}