{"id":329178,"date":"2025-12-05T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329178\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:05:16","slug":"adorable-moment-baby-seal-gatecrashes-new-zealand-bar-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329178\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable moment baby seal gatecrashes New Zealand bar | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/evans-new-zealand-wellington-scientists-richmond-b2877798.html\" title=\"A seal galumphs into a bar. The bartender says &#039;Grab the salmon!&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A baby seal<\/a> gatecrashed a bar in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-zealand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> last week, to the surprise of patrons.<\/p>\n<p>The animal galumphed through the doors to Sprig + Fern The Meadows craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of the South Island, on 30 November. It dashed across the pet-friendly venue, lodging itself under the dishwasher.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the seal was lured out using some salmon and a dog crate that a customer retrieved from their house.<\/p>\n<p>Conservation rangers, who were already tracking the wandering seal, released the animal on nearby Rabbit Island.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say it&#8217;s not unusual for curious young seals to show up in unexpected places at this time of year as they follow rivers and streams up to 15km (9 miles) inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby seal gatecrashed a bar in New Zealand last week, to the surprise of patrons. The animal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-329178","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\/329178","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=329178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}