{"id":462416,"date":"2025-12-21T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462416\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:15:15","slug":"video-shows-man-woman-throwing-rocks-at-elephant-seal-resting-on-point-reyes-beach-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/462416\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows man, woman throwing rocks at elephant seal resting on Point Reyes beach, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Park Service is asking the public for help identifying two people captured on video allegedly throwing rocks at an elephant seal on a Point Reyes National Seashore beach.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from the park\u2019s Chimney Rock livestream on Dec. 6, shows a woman and man throwing multiple rocks at an elephant seal resting on the beach, the agency announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1320449160122875&amp;set=a.222114766622992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook post Friday<\/a>. Several of the rocks appeared to strike the seal, park officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Elephant seals are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other National Park Service wildlife regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The woman in the video was described as an adult with black hair, who was wearing a white baseball cap and a red and dark-colored jacket and jeans. The man, who also appeared to throw rocks at the seal, was wearing a dark jacket with neon yellow accents and carried a DSLR-style camera, park officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The park service is urging anyone with information on the incident to call investigators at 888-653-0009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Park Service is asking the public for help identifying two people captured on video allegedly throwing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":462417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[210864,1583,210865,159,210866,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-462416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-elephant-seal","9":"tag-marin-county","10":"tag-point-reyes-national-seashore","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-throwing-rocks","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115758217481112553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462416","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=462416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}