{"id":56030,"date":"2023-06-17T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/17\/home-invasions-and-roadblocks-new-zealand-on-alert-as-seal-silly-season-begins"},"modified":"2023-06-17T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:00:02","slug":"home-invasions-and-roadblocks-new-zealand-on-alert-as-seal-silly-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56030","title":{"rendered":"Home invasions and roadblocks: New Zealand on alert as \u2018seal silly season\u2019 begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public notice issued to watch out for the flippered creatures as they start to leave their breeding colonies and venture out into New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Sunbathing on roads, breaking through catflaps, visiting film sets, invading homes and taking in the heat of backyard spa bath covers \u2013 New Zealand\u2019s \u201cseal silly season\u201d has officially begun and the country is bracing for an influx of adolescent marine mammals exploring the country\u2019s highways, patios and golf courses.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the government issued a formal public notice that \u201cseal season\u201d had begun \u2013 and New Zealanders could expect to encounter higher numbers of the flippered young creatures out and about, exploring human-dominated spaces. From May until December, adult males and freshly weaned pups from New Zealand\u2019s growing fur seal population will leave their breeding colonies and head out into the wider world \u2013 many for the first time. They\u2019re young, inexperienced and prone to adolescent misbehaviour and mishaps, hitting the wider world en masse like a cohort of fresh-minted spring breakers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/17\/home-invasions-and-roadblocks-new-zealand-on-alert-as-seal-silly-season-begins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public notice issued to watch out for the flippered creatures as they start to leave their breeding colonies and venture out into New ZealandSunbathing on roads, breaking through catflaps, visiting film sets, invading homes and taking in the heat of ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[265,41,2008,468,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-mammals","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56031,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56030\/revisions\/56031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}