{"id":68431,"date":"2024-12-20T23:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/21\/living-with-lions-the-new-zealand-city-where-humans-and-sea-lions-co-exist"},"modified":"2024-12-20T23:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:00:55","slug":"living-with-lions-the-new-zealand-city-where-humans-and-sea-lions-co-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68431","title":{"rendered":"Living with lions: the New Zealand city where humans and sea lions co-exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunedin is grappling with the question of how to manage a growing sea lion population in a busy urban area<\/p>\n<p>If a neighbourhood cat padded into your garden it would barely register a passing glance. But what if it was a whiskery, 300kg male sea lion, with a mouth full of teeth, seeking love on your doorstep, or a heavily pregnant sea lion lounging among the flowers?<\/p>\n<p>For those living in New Zealand\u2019s southern city, Dunedin \u2013 where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/new-zealand-sea-lion-breeding-season-summer-holidays-overlap-dunedin-golf-course\">growing population of sea lions are becoming resident<\/a> \u2013 close interactions with the rare and charismatic animals are increasingly a reality.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/21\/living-with-lions-the-new-zealand-city-where-humans-and-sea-lions-co-exist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunedin is grappling with the question of how to manage a growing sea lion population in a busy urban areaIf a neighbourhood cat padded into your garden it would barely register a passing glance. But what if it was a whiskery, 300kg male sea lion, with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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-68431","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\/68431","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68431\/revisions\/68432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}