Animal-care experts at SeaWorld completed their delicate mission recently of rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing a harbor-seal pup that experts said would surely have died if not for SeaWorld\u2019s intervention.
\nThe pup, less than a year old, was found at the Children\u2019s Pool in La Jolla on July 26 with monofilament wrapped around its neck. SeaWorld officials said the line was already cutting into the animal\u2019s neck and he would have died without help.
\nOnce the line was removed with surgical tools, the wound was cleaned and the animal was provided antibiotics to prevent infection, spending less than a week of medical rehabilitation and recovery at the park\u2019s Animal Rescue Center.
\nThe pup was returned to his ocean home July 31 at the Children\u2019s Pool.
\nThis year, SeaWorld San Diego\u2019s Animal Care Team has rescued more than 185 ill, injured and stranded marine mammals, including sea lions, seals, whales and dolphins. SeaWorld officials said nearly 70 percent of the marine mammals rescued by the park are returned to the wild.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Animal-care experts at SeaWorld completed their delicate mission recently of rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing a harbor-seal pup that experts said would surely have died if not for SeaWorld\u2019s intervention. The pup, less than a year old, was found at the Children\u2019s Pool in La Jolla on July 26 with monofilament wrapped around its neck. SeaWorld […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":289793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Harbor seal pup on verge of death rescued, rehabbed, released to ocean by SeaWorld","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}