{"id":446947,"date":"2026-02-26T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:21:08","slug":"rescued-seals-released-into-the-wild-by-the-rspca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446947\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued seals released into the wild by the RSPCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you ever come across a seal on the beach, you should not touch it or go near it &#8211; it is better to stay away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you&#8217;ve spotted a baby seal alone on a beach \u2013 don&#8217;t panic. Seal pups are often left alone on the beach while their mums hunt for fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In fact, mums leave their pups to fully fend for themselves quite early on, when they&#8217;re as young as a month old \u2013 or younger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Don&#8217;t try and coax the seal back into the water. They might get scared, injure themselves, or even bite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you are worried about a pup or a seal, watch from a safe distance and contact your local RSPCA centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watch Ryan&#8217;s top tips above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you ever come across a seal on the beach, you should not touch it or go near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-446947","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\/446947","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=446947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}