{"id":35162,"date":"2021-08-14T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/case-of-the-mystery-sea-snakes-why-are-reptiles-washing-up-on-new-zealands-shores"},"modified":"2021-08-14T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T20:00:19","slug":"case-of-the-mystery-sea-snakes-why-are-reptiles-washing-up-on-new-zealands-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35162","title":{"rendered":"Case of the mystery sea snakes: why are reptiles washing up on New Zealand\u2019s shores?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A famously snake-free country, Aotearoa and its beaches are wrangling with the sporadic arrival of yellow-bellied sea snakes<\/p>\n<p>It looked like a rope or a question mark \u2013 a black scribble on the sand. The creature had washed up on a Northland beach in May and was found by a steely local 11-year-old, who popped it into a bag, took it to his local corner shop and requested a box. The purveyor told him it was a sea snake, so the boy put it in a bucket and took it home. The snake did not survive the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to do with it,\u201d the boy told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/third-venomous-sea-snake-turns-up-this-time-on-manawatu-coast\/UMDLDKYRMFMDLSXSCWPOHJPSXE\/\">New Zealand Herald.<\/a> \u201cI chopped its head off, put it in a bag and threw it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/14\/case-of-the-mystery-sea-snakes-why-are-reptiles-washing-up-on-new-zealands-shores\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A famously snake-free country, Aotearoa and its beaches are wrangling with the sporadic arrival of yellow-bellied sea snakesIt looked like a rope or a question mark \u2013 a black scribble on the sand. The creature had washed up on a Northland beach in May &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,2258,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-snakes","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35163,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35162\/revisions\/35163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}