{"id":7679,"date":"2010-10-26T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T18:33:17","slug":"lethargic-juvenile-harbor-seal-in-wellfleet-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7679","title":{"rendered":"Lethargic Juvenile Harbor Seal in Wellfleet Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-001-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7681\" title=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-001-480-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harbor Seal in Wellfleet Harbor<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Sue Wieber Nourse of Turtle Journal discovered a small, juvenile harbor seal\u00c2\u00a0on the beach just west of the fisherman&#8217;s pier in Wellfleet Harbor early this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 The animal appeared quite lethargic when Sue first arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-002-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7683\" title=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"harbor seal 25 Oct 2010 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/harbor-seal-25-Oct-2010-002-480-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harbor Seal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">After a few moments the juvenile seemed to\u00c2\u00a0perk up a bit, yet continued to bask on the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 We reported this seal to the marine mammal stranding network (IFAW) and were told that it had been observed\u00c2\u00a0at this location for at least 24 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Volunteers from the stranding network were checking the animal periodically.\u00c2\u00a0 Should you find a marine mammal on a Cape Cod beach, do NOT disturb the animal.\u00c2\u00a0 They are protected by federal law.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, report the observation to the stranding network at 508-743-9548 &#8230; or you can always call the Turtle Journal 24\/7 hotline at 508-274-5108.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   google_ad_client = \"pub-6174531794045772\"; \/* TJ adds, 336x280, created 11\/14\/10 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"5313686105\"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juvenile Harbor Seal in Wellfleet Harbor\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse of Turtle Journal discovered a small, juvenile harbor seal\u00c2\u00a0on the beach just west of the fisherman&#8217;s pier in Wellfleet Harbor early this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 The animal appeared quite lethargic when Sue first arrived on the scene. Juvenile Harbor Seal After a few moments the juvenile seemed to\u00c2\u00a0perk [&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\/7679"}],"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=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8024,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/8024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}