{"id":4835,"date":"2001-03-14T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2001-03-14T22:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:43:30","slug":"chubby-fading-%e2%80%94-14-march-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4835","title":{"rendered":"Chubby Fading? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 14 March 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4837 aligncenter\" title=\"03-14-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-1.jpg\" alt=\"03-14-1\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>&#8220;Chubby&#8221; in the Salt Marsh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Rounding Turtle Point off south Lieutenant Island this morning, I spotted a grayish shape sagging with the contour of the salt marsh tufts.\u00c2\u00a0 A quick scan with binoculars identified Chubby.\u00c2\u00a0 She lay about 50 feet to the east of her last location and in an area which is flooded at each high tide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4838 aligncenter\" title=\"03-14-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-2.jpg\" alt=\"03-14-2\" width=\"464\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-2.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-2-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>&#8220;Chubby&#8221; &#8212; Ailing Juvenile Harp Seal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">She appeared so lethargic as I approached that I suspected she had passed.\u00c2\u00a0 But, no, as I tight-roped through the mucky marsh flats and circled for a closer view, she still tracked my movement with her eyes if not with her head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4839 aligncenter\" title=\"03-14-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-3.jpg\" alt=\"03-14-3\" width=\"431\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-3.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-3-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Evidence of Confrontation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The area of her\u00c2\u00a0left side,\u00c2\u00a0which evidenced a confrontation on Monday, still seemed raw with some spotty blood traces.\u00c2\u00a0 She\u00c2\u00a0continues to expel gas in audible bursts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-4-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4840\" title=\"03-14-4 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-4-480.jpg\" alt=\"03-14-4 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-4-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-14-4-480-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harp Seal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">During this quick assessment, she lifted her head only once and briefly; she did not exhibit any defensive behavior.\u00c2\u00a0 Her eyes have some crusting around the lower edges, but I saw no fresh exudate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chubby&#8221; in the Salt Marsh Rounding Turtle Point off south Lieutenant Island this morning, I spotted a grayish shape sagging with the contour of the salt marsh tufts.\u00c2\u00a0 A quick scan with binoculars identified Chubby.\u00c2\u00a0 She lay about 50 feet to the east of her last location and in an area which is flooded at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[823],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4835\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}