{"id":408792,"date":"2025-11-27T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408792\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T17:26:14","slug":"marine-mammals-of-maine-celebrates-release-of-100th-rehabilitated-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408792\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Mammals of Maine celebrates release of 100th rehabilitated seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHIPPSBURG, Maine (WGME) &#8212; &#8220;Seal 269&#8221; was found in Kennebunk earlier this fall and was struggling.<\/p>\n<p>The seal is called 269 because he was the 269th animal Marine Mammals of Maine encountered in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>They currently have no other seals at their facility while they prepare for an expansion so they can care for even more animals in the future.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday in Phippsburg, the organization released him; he&#8217;s the 100th seal they have rehabilitated. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>CBS13 Photojournalist David Hill followed the young seal as he made his way back home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHIPPSBURG, Maine (WGME) &#8212; &#8220;Seal 269&#8221; was found in Kennebunk earlier this fall and was struggling. The seal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-408792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115622837206066139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}