{"id":2573,"date":"2012-07-12T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T21:20:24","slug":"field-notes-seeing-seal-pups-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/field-notes-seeing-seal-pups-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Notes: Seeing seal pups in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2574\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/seal-pup-at-ohau-point.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2574\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2574\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/seal-pup-at-ohau-point.jpg?w=249\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seal pup at Ohau Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students on AUIP\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/newzealand\">New Zealand sustainability program<\/a> visit a \u2018seal pup nursery\u2019 north of the small settlement of <a title=\"Kaikoura\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaikoura.co.nz\/\">Kaikoura<\/a> in <a title=\"New Zealand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newzealand.com\/int\/\">New Zealand<\/a>\u2019s South Island. Maurice and Heather Manawatu take AUIP students here as part of their <a title=\"Maori Tours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maoritours.co.nz\/\">Maori Tour<\/a> experience.<\/p>\n<p>The nursery is located in a waterfall pool a short walk from the coastal highway. Up to one hundred seal pups play and frolic in the pool while their parents focus on the more serious task of catching fish in the nearby ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the lengths the locals are going to protect this unique tourist attraction here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/new-zealand\/7245455\/Hotel-staff-check-on-seal-pups\">http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/travel\/new-zealand\/7245455\/Hotel-staff-check-on-seal-pups<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students on AUIP\u2019s New Zealand sustainability program visit a \u2018seal pup nursery\u2019 north of the small settlement of Kaikoura in New Zealand\u2019s South Island. Maurice and Heather Manawatu take AUIP students here as part of their Maori Tour experience. The nursery is located in a waterfall pool a short walk from the coastal highway. Up to one hundred seal pups&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes","category-new-zealand","category-news-brief"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}