{"id":382426,"date":"2026-01-21T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382426\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:36:09","slug":"rescued-jersey-seal-pups-released-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382426\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Jersey seal pups released into the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams there looked after the seals for two months, where they recovered and were taught how to hunt and eat by themselves, rescuers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sue Schwar, founder of South Essex Wildlife Hospital, said: &#8220;That&#8217;s the whole point of rehabilitating any wild animal is to get it back in the wild as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As soon as they&#8217;re up to weight and there&#8217;s no issues, no concerns over their health and feeding\u2026 we put them in big plastic kennels, put them in the back of our ambulance, drive them off to a secret location and then open the door and let them go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their release saw them &#8220;flopping&#8221; into the water before &#8220;scampering off&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Schwar added: &#8220;I&#8217;m so delighted that they&#8217;ve gone off for a good old swim &#8211; in a nice way I hope we don&#8217;t see them again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teams there looked after the seals for two months, where they recovered and were taught how to hunt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-382426","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\/382426","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=382426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}