{"id":1608,"date":"2011-04-02T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2011-04-02T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T16:00:54","slug":"pups-deemed-ready-for-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/02\/pups-deemed-ready-for-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Pups deemed ready for release"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1609\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1609\" title=\"Foca_pups_March2011\" src=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Foca_pups_March2011-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Foca_pups_March2011-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Foca_pups_March2011-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Foca_pups_March2011-400x285.jpg 400w, https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Foca_pups_March2011.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy SAD-AFAG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two orphaned Mediterranean monk seal pups, under rehab in the Turkish Aegean town of Fo\u00e7a for the last three and a half months, will be released on 2 April, NGO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadafag.org\">SAD-AFAG<\/a> has announced [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadafag.org\/english\/index.php?bolum=haber&amp;id=201\">Monk seal pups to be released<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The pups were both discovered on the 18 December 2010 but in separate locations: in the Bozyaz\u0131 region, Mersin, and the Kas region, Antalya [see <a href=\"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/08\/two-orphaned-pups-enter-rehab-in-foca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two orphaned pups enter rehab in Fo\u00e7a<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although breaking new ground in feeding techniques (the pups initially being fed fish porridge out of bowls, rather than being force-fed by tube), the programme later suffered disruption when disagreement arose between the appointed veterinarian, Avni G\u00f6k of Izmir Greater Municipality, and SAD-AFAG.<\/p>\n<p>Although SAD-AFAG provides little detail on the source of the dispute, it states in its press release that its personnel were locked out of the rehabilitation unit between 19 February and 18 March \u2014when the Ministry of Environment finally restored SAD-AFAG control. This created a\u00a0 one month &#8220;blind period&#8221;,\u00a0 says SAD-AFAG, where little information on the pups&#8217; condition or progress was available.<\/p>\n<p>Following various veterinary tests and assessment of the pups&#8217; behavioural progress, SAD-AFAG judged the pair ready for release.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 April, the pups weighed in at 34 and 37 kg respectively, 128 and 135 cm in length.<\/p>\n<p>Release will take place along the remote coasts between Gazipa\u015fa (Antalya) and Anamur (Mersin), says SAD-AFAG, one of twelve &#8220;Important Monk Seal Sites&#8221; recognised by the government of Turkey in need of protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two orphaned Mediterranean monk seal pups, under rehab in the Turkish Aegean town of Fo\u00e7a for the last three and a half months, will be released on 2 April, NGO SAD-AFAG has announced [Monk seal pups to be released]. The pups were both discovered on the 18 December 2010 but in separate locations: in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/02\/pups-deemed-ready-for-release\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pups deemed ready for release&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,52],"tags":[8,9,10],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-med-monk-seal","category-turkey","tag-rescue","tag-rehabilitation","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}