{"id":35539,"date":"2025-07-31T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35539\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:32:12","slug":"seal-spotted-feasting-on-eels-10km-inland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35539\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal spotted feasting on eels 10km inland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sealeels.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Screenshot \/ Clarke Boys Hunting\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Screenshot \/ Clarke Boys Hunting<\/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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/568545\/seal-eating-eels-on-farm-10km-from-ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/rnz_banner-new.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo:\u00a0Screenshot \/ Clarke Boys Hunting After heavy rainfall in Coromandel, a family have spotted a seal in floodwaters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-35539","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\/35539","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=35539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}