{"id":142988,"date":"2025-11-16T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T14:36:06","slug":"stranded-sea-otter-pup-reunited-with-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142988\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded sea otter pup reunited with mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MORRO BAY, Calif. (WFLA) \u2014 A stranded sea otter pup was reunited with its mother with help from experts with the Marine Mammal Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Oct. 20, around 11 a.m., experts at the Marine Mammal Center received calls to the response hotline from members of the public regarding a southern sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After safely securing the pup in a carrier crate, the Center took a recording of the pup vocalizing which they played on a Bluetooth speaker once the pup was too tired to continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After around two hours of playing the pup\u2019s vocalization, a female otter began following their boat and approached it repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The team then placed the pup down in the water allowing the mother to grab it and start swimming with it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video taken by the center shows the joyous reunion as the mother otter approaches the pup, pulling it into her arms before floating away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORRO BAY, Calif. (WFLA) \u2014 A stranded sea otter pup was reunited with its mother with help from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82022,82,82021,82020,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-142988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-morro-bay","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-sea-otter","13":"tag-the-marine-mammal-center","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}