{"id":127348,"date":"2025-09-10T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127348\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:27:07","slug":"tiny-grey-seal-pup-recovering-well-at-cornish-seal-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127348\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny grey seal pup recovering well at Cornish seal sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People who spot seal pups around the Cornish coast are being encouraged to stay at least 100m (330ft) away, keep dogs on leads and avoid disturbing pups and parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Goodridge said: &#8220;When they&#8217;re born, they are white and fluffy and they will basically spend three weeks on the beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mum will go away to feed and then come back every couple of hours to feed her pup and then leave again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Those few weeks are vital, they put on weight really quickly, so if people are getting too close to a pup because they think they&#8217;re stranded or abandoned, then mum may just leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She&#8217;ll only come back if she thinks it&#8217;s safe to do so &#8211; so it&#8217;s vital that they stay together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Every year staff at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary choose a different naming convention for the pups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023 it was actors &#8211; in 2024 it was insects &#8211; this year it is desserts, and that is why the tiny pup has been named Smores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who spot seal pups around the Cornish coast are being encouraged to stay at least 100m (330ft)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-127348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}