{"id":284246,"date":"2025-11-11T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284246\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:23:10","slug":"watch-large-sea-lion-blocks-traffic-on-washington-state-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284246\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Large sea lion blocks traffic on Washington state road"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 10 (UPI) &#8212; Drivers on a Washington state road came up against a surprising road hazard during a recent rain storm &#8212; a large sea lion.<\/p>\n<p>The Cosmopolis Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0sqMTZZcdgt5PdKt1vYJNWvxShATnFj3oFoKnmkgx5tVMJ6gwfSLnZTAXn4nxiwW3l&amp;id=100068860931370\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said on social media<\/a> that the &#8220;large friend&#8221; was spotted loitering in traffic on Blue Slough Road during heavy rains on Thursday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife was informed of the semi-aquatic pedestrian&#8217;s presence in the roadway and enforcement officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/sea-lion-blocks-roadway-in-cosmopolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrived with a<\/a> National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agent.<\/p>\n<p>The rescuers were able to haze the sea lion out of the roadway and back into a nearby river.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said sea lions are known to visit land for numerous reasons, including resting, avoiding predators and regulating their body temperature.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 10 (UPI) &#8212; Drivers on a Washington state road came up against a surprising road hazard during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,2699,2697,79,2698,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-284246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-odd","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-weird","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}