{"id":436459,"date":"2026-02-20T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436459\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:18:06","slug":"baby-seal-closes-road-after-being-spotted-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436459\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby seal closes road after being spotted in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Early yesterday morning (Thursday) a young grey seal pup was found lying in the middle of Scarborough\u2013 at risk of being in an accident with oncoming vehicles.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  RECOMMENDED READING:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazetteherald.co.uk\/news\/25871035.north-yorkshire-town-council-thanks-community-heroes\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Yorkshire town council thanks community heroes<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazetteherald.co.uk\/news\/25866265.farmhouse-north-yorkshire-turned-boutique-hotel-spa\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Farmhouse in North Yorkshire could be turned into boutique hotel and spa<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A local business promptly rang the British Divers Marine Life Rescue&#8217;s hotline and stayed with the pup to keep them safe until the charity&#8217;s Marine Mammal Medics arrived.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, which responds to marine mammals in distress, said: &#8220;With support from North Yorkshire Police and the local council to disperse the crowds, the pup was able to return to the beach \u2013 where they were monitored by Medics, completely oblivious to the attention they had been attracting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;If you see a seal you\u2019re concerned about, there are some simple steps you can take to help keep both them &#8211; and yourself &#8211; safe:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  * Resist getting closer for photos or videos\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  * Avoid putting yourself or others at risk to observe\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  * Do not touch, move, chase, or pour water on the seal\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  * Call 999 if there is an immediate risk to people.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u260e\ufe0f Call the BDMLR 24\/7 hotline for advice: 01825 765546 See less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early yesterday morning (Thursday) a young grey seal pup was found lying in the middle of Scarborough\u2013 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-436459","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\/436459","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=436459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}