{"id":429436,"date":"2026-02-16T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429436\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:41:07","slug":"crush-the-loggerhead-turtle-leaves-quarantine-tank-at-sea-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429436\/","title":{"rendered":"Crush the loggerhead turtle leaves quarantine tank at Sea Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare turtle that was flown to the UK after being rescued in Jersey has begun the next stage of its rehabilitation at a rescue centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crush, the loggerhead turtle, has been in a 2,000-litre (440-gallon) quarantine tank since being brought to Weymouth Sea Life on 10 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff said they were &#8220;thrilled&#8221; with her progress since she was found washed up and apparently lifeless on a beach on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Monday, she was transferred to a 17,000-litre (3,740-gallon) tank and, once acclimatised, will be introduced to another loggerhead turtle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare turtle that was flown to the UK after being rescued in Jersey has begun the next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-429436","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\/429436","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=429436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}