{"id":24894,"date":"2025-01-27T04:26:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=24894"},"modified":"2025-01-27T04:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T09:37:35","slug":"new-years-seal-rescued-from-mantoloking-beach-is-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/01\/new-years-seal-rescued-from-mantoloking-beach-is-doing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;New Year&#8217;s Seal&#8217; Rescued From Mantoloking Beach is Doing Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17068\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mantoseal.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17068\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17068\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mantoseal-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"A seal rescued from the beach in Mantoloking Dec. 30, 2024. (Photo: Marine Mammal Stranding Center)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"744\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A seal rescued from the beach in Mantoloking Dec. 30, 2024. (Photo: Marine Mammal Stranding Center)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was an adventurous start to the new year for a small harbor seal who was scooped up by rescuers after becoming stranded on an ocean beach in Mantoloking New Year&#8217;s Eve. Her rescuers at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said this weekend that the seal is on the mend and getting back to herself as she recovers.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year-old seal was 80 pounds \u2013 very much underweight \u2013 when she became the 216th (and final) marine mammal rescued by the stranding center in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her left rear flipper was swollen, and she had abrasions on her right rear flipper,&#8221; the center said in its update. &#8220;Her left eye had what appeared to be an old healed injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the MMSC staff, over the past four weeks the seal has been receiving medical treatment as she recovers in &#8220;Pen 1&#8221; of the facility&#8217;s pool house. She has developed a strong appetite, now consuming 10.5-pounds of fish every day to slowly bring her up to a healthy weight. The swelling in her flipper continues to improve with treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This little lady is also quite feisty, and has definitely been keeping the technicians on their toes while they are cleaning her enclosure!&#8221; the update said. &#8220;She is behaving appropriately aggressive, a behavior we like to see in our wild patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the center releases seals back into the wild at a safe location \u2013 either directly into the ocean or near an inlet \u2013 when veterinarians determine they are healthy enough to be free.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/01\/new-years-seal-rescued-from-mantoloking-beach-is-doing-well\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was an adventurous start to the new year for a small harbor seal who was scooped up by rescuers after becoming stranded on an ocean beach in Mantoloking New Year&#8217;s Eve. Her rescuers at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said this weekend that the seal is on the mend and getting back to herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,4484,2716,122,579],"class_list":["post-24894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-harbor-seal","tag-mantoloking","tag-marine-mammal-stranding-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/mantoseal.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6tw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}