{"id":278337,"date":"2025-11-12T13:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278337\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:26:26","slug":"heartwarming-moment-sea-otter-pup-reunites-with-mother-after-rescuers-play-her-cries-over-loud-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278337\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartwarming moment sea otter pup reunites with mother after rescuers play her cries over loud speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is the heart-warming moment a stranded sea otter pup is reunited with its mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage released by the Marine Mammal Center shows the mother swimming towards her baby, who had been spotted near the shore along the Embarcadero roadway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/san-francisco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After rescuers saved the pup, they recorded a one-minute clip of it crying and played it over a bluetooth speaker, in hopes that the mother would hear it as they drove their boat around Morro Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following two hours of searching, the mother appeared and swam towards the boat. The team placed the baby in the water and the mother grabbed it before swimming away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One rescuer said they \u201ccried\u201d during the reunion. \u201cIt was super rewarding, like top five day at work ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the heart-warming moment a stranded sea otter pup is reunited with its mother. Footage released by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,126971,323],"class_list":["post-278337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-the-marine-mammal-center","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}