{"id":1359,"date":"2010-02-12T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:43:46","slug":"weddell-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/weddell-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Weddell Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/weddell.JPG\" alt=\"weddell\" title=\"weddell\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1361 colorbox-1359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/weddell.JPG 448w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/weddell-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weddell_Seal\">Weddell&#8217;s<\/a> are the cutest seals at Rothera and stay around over the winter unlike the other seals which go out to sea. Their lifespan (20 years) is shorter as they use their teeth to ream out ice holes to breath through and their teeth wear out. Once a Weddell Seal&#8217;s teeth have worn down to a certain level, the seal is unable to eat and eventually starves to death. <\/p>\n<p>Their pups are born in September. The Weddell Seal is known for its very deep dives, which may reach some 700 m (2,300 ft). It can also stay underwater for approximately 80 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weddell&#8217;s are the cutest seals at Rothera and stay around over the winter unlike the other seals which go out to sea. Their lifespan (20 years) is shorter as they use their teeth to ream out ice holes to breath through and their teeth wear out. Once a Weddell Seal&#8217;s teeth have worn down to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}