{"id":420442,"date":"2026-02-11T19:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420442\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:37:15","slug":"walrus-spotted-having-a-rest-near-a-coastal-town-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/420442\/","title":{"rendered":"Walrus spotted having a rest near a coastal town in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emily Mayman, who is from the BDMLR, called walruses &#8220;rare but occasional visitors&#8221; to the UK and wider Europe, adding that &#8220;several&#8221; individual animals had been recorded in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained: &#8220;These animals originate from the Arctic, and their presence further south may be linked to environmental changes affecting their natural habitat, including the ongoing reduction in sea ice associated with climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also added that young, male Atlantic walruses were most likely to roam and were capable of travelling very long distances &#8211; which is why it&#8217;s so important they get the chance to rest before they continue their journeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the UK, walruses are protected by the law, which means people aren&#8217;t allowed to disturb them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Mayman, who is from the BDMLR, called walruses &#8220;rare but occasional visitors&#8221; to the UK and wider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-420442","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\/420442","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=420442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}