{"id":255649,"date":"2025-07-11T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255649\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:56:11","slug":"deadly-yellow-bellied-sea-snake-washes-up-on-whangamata-beach-coromandel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/255649\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly yellow-bellied sea snake washes up on Whangamat\u0101 beach, Coromandel"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to DoC, about six to 10 yellow-bellied sea snakes are sighted each year, mostly around the northeast coast of the North Island, though they have been discovered as far south as Cook Strait.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeached yellow-bellied sea snakes will almost certainly be dead or dying, as they are entirely pelagic (they cannot live on land). They breed in the tropics and spend a large amount of their lives drifting on the ocean currents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can dive up to 50m for three to four hours, depending on the temperature of the water, and feed on small fishes,\u201d the department\u2019s website said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough they are generally docile, these snakes are highly venomous, so it\u2019s important not to approach or handle them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DoC advises that if you see a snake:<\/p>\n

\u2013 Stay well away \u2013 even if it looks docile, it may still be active.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Keep children and dogs at a safe distance.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Call the DoC hotline on 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362 468) to report it immediately. Please send in photos and GPS co-ordinates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to DoC, about six to 10 yellow-bellied sea snakes are sighted each year, mostly around the northeast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[14120,65401,253,1425,10911,98246,98243,21003,7766,7841,254,98248,70,15003,31108,34234,6094,16,15,9987,54301,98247,98244,98245,1717,32452],"class_list":["post-255649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-after","tag-alive","tag-away","tag-beach","tag-been","tag-coromandel","tag-deadly","tag-from","tag-have","tag-holidaymakers","tag-on","tag-sand","tag-science","tag-sea","tag-snake","tag-spot","tag-stay","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-up","tag-urged","tag-washed","tag-washes","tag-whangamat","tag-wildlife","tag-yellowbellied"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114833534920074132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}