{"id":957019,"date":"2026-05-13T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:28:17","slug":"magnus-the-wandering-walrus-swaps-scotland-for-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/957019\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnus the wandering walrus swaps Scotland for Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A young walrus who became something of a celebrity as he toured the Scottish coastline has now crossed the North Sea and arrived in Norway.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The young male &#8211; who was given the name Magnus &#8211; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg0zx1q4qlo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first spotted<\/a> at the Orkney island of Stronsay last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then appeared around the north east of Scotland in Lossiemouth, Macduff, Fraserburgh, Findochty and Hopeman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People in Norway have now been sharing photographs of Magnus taking it easy, more than 300 miles (483km) away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young walrus who became something of a celebrity as he toured the Scottish coastline has now crossed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-957019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116567271325971988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957019","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=957019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}