{"id":905216,"date":"2026-09-25T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905216\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:26:15","slug":"china-seal-touches-hearts-for-swimming-200km-back-to-island-after-missing-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905216\/","title":{"rendered":"China seal touches hearts for swimming 200km back to island after missing humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A young seal gained widespread attention on social media in China after swimming 200km to return to an island where it had lived for months following its release into the wild.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This two-year-old seal marks its second return to a human-inhabited area after being freed into open seas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Internet users were touched by videos showcasing the seal, affectionately named Nana, as it returned to the shores of Dachangshan Island in northeastern China\u2019s Liaoning province.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nana was released into the ocean on September 7, but reappeared on the island on September 13 after covering the impressive distance of 200km, as reported by the Science Education Times, thanks to positioning equipment attached to its body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young seal gained widespread attention on social media in China after swimming 200km to return to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,473258,512,4690,473255,473254,54588,473261,8280,5035,38095,473262,473260,128,473257,473259,29338,32635,175598,1542,473253,35549,473256,338],"class_list":["post-905216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-changhai-county-government","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-dachangshan-island","tag-dalian-ocean-university","tag-guangxi","tag-liaoning-provincial-institute-of-marine-fisheries-sciences","tag-life","tag-marine","tag-marine-animals","tag-nana","tag-sanshan-island","tag-science","tag-science-education-times","tag-sea-development-bureau","tag-seal","tag-survival","tag-survive","tag-training","tag-wang-xin","tag-wild","tag-wild-survival","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905216","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=905216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}