{"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\u2019s 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>\u201cHer left rear flipper was swollen, and she had abrasions on her right rear flipper,\u201d the center said in its update. \u201cHer left eye had what appeared to be an old healed injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the MMSC staff, over the past four weeks the seal has been receiving medical treatment as she recovers in \u201cPen 1\u201d of the facility\u2019s 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>\u201cThis little lady is also quite feisty, and has definitely been keeping the technicians on their toes while they are cleaning her enclosure!\u201d the update said. \u201cShe is behaving appropriately aggressive, a behavior we like to see in our wild patients.\u201d<\/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\u2019s 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_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}]}}