{"id":34259,"date":"2025-07-31T05:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:55:08","slug":"seal-eating-eels-on-farm-10km-from-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34259\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal eating eels on farm 10km from ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4K3ESPI_seal_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"731\" alt=\"A seal with an eel in its mouth.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Screenshot \/ Clarke Boys Hunting\n<\/p>\n<p>After heavy rainfall in Coromandel, a family have spotted a seal in floodwaters on their farm, catching eels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crazy stuff on the farm this morning!&#8221; Clarke Boys Hunting posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last thing you expect to see when you get a flood on the farm is a seal catching eels in the paddocks over 10km from the ocean. As you can hear the kids loved seeing the visitor having his lunch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems they aren&#8217;t the only ones who have spotted a seal, with NS Hunting commenting that he&#8217;d seen a seal in a lake on his farm recently too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only way for it to get there was a lot of flopping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone else said: &#8220;Getting them way up the Whanganui river too bro miles away from the ocean.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Screenshot \/ Clarke Boys Hunting After heavy rainfall in Coromandel, a family have spotted a seal in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,1590,63,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,128,338],"class_list":["post-34259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34259","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=34259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}