{"id":513069,"date":"2026-04-04T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:52:10","slug":"seal-pups-gave-final-farewell-before-north-sea-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513069\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal pups &#8216;gave final farewell&#8217; before North Sea release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two rescued seal pups rescued gave &#8220;one final farewell&#8221; to volunteers before swimming off into the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grey seals were found &#8220;severely underweight&#8221; in spots near Seaham and Cambois in January, with one of them &#8220;struggling to survive&#8221;, Blyth Wildlife Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After being treated at a rescue facility, the seals named Minnie and Tweety were taken to Tyneside Aquarium for rehabilitation and released in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior aquarist Sophie Wilson described seeing them leave as &#8220;bittersweet&#8221;, with team members &#8220;wiping away tears&#8221; as the seals &#8220;took a final glance&#8221; before taking to the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two rescued seal pups rescued gave &#8220;one final farewell&#8221; to volunteers before swimming off into the North Sea.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-513069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513069","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=513069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}