{"id":356806,"date":"2026-01-07T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:57:07","slug":"dehydrated-seal-rescued-after-travelling-from-cornwall-to-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/356806\/","title":{"rendered":"Dehydrated seal rescued after travelling from Cornwall to Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellie West, RSPCA animal rescue and wildlife officer, said: &#8220;The pup was dehydrated and in a thin body condition with obvious rolls of skin that should have been filled with fat\/blubber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she noticed marks on the seals back that were similar to spray marks the RSPCA put on seals after they were assessed but these were a different colour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She contacted the British Divers Marine Life Rescue which confirmed it had marked the seal when it was checked on 7 December at Port Gaverne, north Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the four days after this, he made his way to St Brides Bay &#8211; travelling basically in a straight line &#8211; and covering a distance of around 120km,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a really long swim for a young pup.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellie West, RSPCA animal rescue and wildlife officer, said: &#8220;The pup was dehydrated and in a thin body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-356806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356806","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=356806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}