{"id":599475,"date":"2026-09-13T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599475\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:16:10","slug":"petone-beachs-leopard-seal-dies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599475\/","title":{"rendered":"Petone Beach\u2019s leopard seal dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">DoC has been approached for comment. Staff had previously expected the seal to return to the water when it was ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c[In] the last few years, this is probably the third one that I\u2019ve seen. We had a massive, huge leopard seal in Oriental Parade by the boat sheds for a time,\u201d DoC ranger Melody McLaughlin told RNZ a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe\u2019s perfectly happy having the snooze on the beach here, and he will go when he\u2019s good and ready to go back into the water.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DoC has been approached for comment. Staff had previously expected the seal to return to the water when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[82550,7126,7997,111,43,139,69,49948,30394],"class_list":["post-599475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-beachs","tag-dies","tag-leopard","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-petone","tag-seal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}