{"id":262320,"date":"2025-11-14T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262320\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:40:09","slug":"stowaway-seal-seeks-refuge-from-orcas-on-photographers-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262320\/","title":{"rendered":"Stowaway seal seeks refuge from orcas on photographer&#8217;s boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A seal that was being hunted by a pod of orcas has made a narrow escape, after it sought refuge on the boat of US photographer Charvet Drucker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The amateur wildlife photographer told Associated Press that she was snapping photos of orcas off Camano Island in Washington, when she noticed the pod displaying the tell-tale signs of a hunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Shortly after, a seal hopped aboard her vessel in effort in an attempt to avoid being eaten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Drucker said that the orcas eventually gave up the chase after approximately 20 minutes, and the seal was able to make a safe exit from the boat closer to shore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seal that was being hunted by a pod of orcas has made a narrow escape, after it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-262320","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\/262320","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=262320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}