{"id":54369,"date":"2025-08-08T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54369\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:27:07","slug":"devon-rower-shares-special-moment-as-playful-seal-climbs-on-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54369\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon rower shares &#8216;special&#8217; moment as &#8216;playful&#8217; seal climbs on boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A rower had an unexpected encounter during a river training session when a curious seal pup clambered aboard her boat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Louise Manning was taking a breather on the River Dart in Totnes, Devon, when the young seal popped up beside her and climbed on to the front of her boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It looked like a little pup, just inquisitive and playful,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It had four or five goes at getting on the end of the scull, not quite wide enough for him, but it was great entertainment for everyone watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Ms Manning, who rows on the Dart about four times a week, said she often sees seals nearby but has never had one on her boat before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;It was quite special,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I hope it happens again, but I&#8217;m not sure it will.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rower had an unexpected encounter during a river training session when a curious seal pup clambered aboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-54369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54369","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=54369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}