Two injured seal pups have been released back into the wild after eight weeks of life-saving care at an RSPCA wildlife centre.<\/p>\n
Skittles and Hopscotch, both around five months old, were found underweight and suffering from injuries and parasites on the Sussex coastline.<\/p>\n
The RSPCA said their condition was so serious they would not have survived without help.<\/p>\n
Following weeks of round-the-clock care, including being fed fish soup then later whole mackerel and herring, the pups were released at Hastings seafront.<\/p>\n
The seals were initially rescued by British Divers Marine Life Rescue before being transferred to the RSPCA’s Mallydams Wood Wildlife Centre near Hastings.<\/p>\n
Peter Smith, centre manager at Mallydams Wood, said: “Both seal pups required life-saving medical treatment to recover from the injuries to their flippers.<\/p>\n
“They were also hand-fed four times a day to start by staff, until they learned to feed themselves.<\/p>\n
“There was a point during their rehabilitation that we weren’t sure if the pups would pull through, so their release was a particularly special moment for our team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two injured seal pups have been released back into the wild after eight weeks of life-saving care at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-41801","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\/41801","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=41801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}