\n Humber Coastguard says seals like to relax on the beaches in good weather where they are seen by people also enjoying the seaside who think the marine mammals are in trouble and ring 999.\n<\/p>\n
\n That connects them to the coastguard, the marine emergency service for humans.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe\u2019ve had a high number of calls recently about seals that turned out to be perfectly fine,\u201d said Michael Niblett from HM Coastguard\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSeals often come ashore to rest, and approaching them can actually cause them stress or even lead to aggressive behaviour.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cPlease think carefully before calling 999 for the Coastguard about a seal that appears healthy. It can take valuable time away from genuine emergencies.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Coastguards are not the correct people to ring even if the seal is injured.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf you do see an injured seal, please contact BDMLR (British Divers Marine Life Rescue),\u201d said Mr Niblett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humber Coastguard says seals like to relax on the beaches in good weather where they are seen by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-565699","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\/565699","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=565699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}