{"id":61029,"date":"2024-01-08T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/new-zealand-sea-lion-breeding-season-summer-holidays-overlap-dunedin-golf-course"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:11:24","slug":"chaos-in-new-zealand-as-sea-lion-breeding-season-overlaps-with-summer-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61029","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Chaos\u2019 in New Zealand as sea lion breeding season overlaps with summer holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animals have been popping up on golf courses and surfing contests in Dunedin as they reestablish a foothold on the South Island<\/p>\n<p>A growing population of sea lions in the New Zealand city of Dunedin is provoking \u201coverlapping chaos\u201d as their breeding season coincides with residents enjoying peak summer weather.<\/p>\n<p>Two sea lions gave birth on a golf course, another swam alongside competitors in a surfing contest. Others have been spotted crossing roads as Dunedin\u2019s sea lion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/17\/home-invasions-and-roadblocks-new-zealand-on-alert-as-seal-silly-season-begins\">\u201csilly season\u201d<\/a>, which runs from mid-December to mid-January, is in full swing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/new-zealand-sea-lion-breeding-season-summer-holidays-overlap-dunedin-golf-course\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animals have been popping up on golf courses and surfing contests in Dunedin as they reestablish a foothold on the South IslandA growing population of sea lions in the New Zealand city of Dunedin is provoking \u201coverlapping chaos\u201d as their breeding seaso&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/61029","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61030,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61029\/revisions\/61030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}