{"id":2230,"date":"2012-02-20T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2020-04-23T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:18:07","slug":"leaked-training-video-sparks-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/20\/leaked-training-video-sparks-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked &#8216;training&#8217; video sparks anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked video purporting to show conservationists administering human contact &#8220;aversion therapy&#8221; to rehabilitated monk seal <a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/tag\/badem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Badem<\/a>, has sparked anger and indignation among academics and the general public both in Turkey and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The video, reportedly dated 3 April 2008, appears to show Badem&#8217;s carers hitting the seal repeatedly with a stick in what is assumed to be an effort to instil in the animal a reluctance to approach and interact with humans. TMG has requested clarification from the organisation responsible, the Mediterranean Seal Research Group (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sadafag.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFAG<\/a>), and hopes to publish its response in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The famous monk seal orphan has been in and out of captivity repeatedly due to her increasingly boisterous \u2014 and at times, dangerous \u2014 interactions with summer bathers.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked video has appeared in major Turkish media outlets, including <a href=\"https:\/\/gundem.milliyet.com.tr\/akdeniz-foku-badem-in-sopayla-dovuldugu-sok-goruntuler\/gundem\/gundemdetay\/17.02.2012\/1504398\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milliyet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnturk.com\/2012\/turkiye\/02\/17\/fok.bademi.doverek.egitmisler\/649549.0\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNNTurk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked video purporting to show conservationists administering human contact &#8220;aversion therapy&#8221; to rehabilitated monk seal Badem, has sparked anger and indignation among academics and the general public both in Turkey and abroad. The video, reportedly dated 3 April 2008, appears to show Badem&#8217;s carers hitting the seal repeatedly with a stick in what is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/20\/leaked-training-video-sparks-anger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaked &#8216;training&#8217; video sparks anger&#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":[43,1,52],"tags":[15,34,8,9,10],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediterranean-news","category-med-monk-seal","category-turkey","tag-badem","tag-human-seal-interaction","tag-rescue","tag-rehabilitation","tag-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","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=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}