{"id":433,"date":"2011-10-22T12:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/?p=433"},"modified":"2017-01-05T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T09:24:27","slug":"where-do-nz-fur-seals-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/2011\/where-do-nz-fur-seals-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do NZ fur seals sleep?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever they like!<\/p>\n<p>That might be on a the nearest vacant spot on the beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure mx-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" alt=\"Fur seal sleeping on a beach\" title=\"A new Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) sleeping on a kelp covered beach.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/fur-seal-15743.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) sleeping on a kelp covered beach. Kaikoura, New Zealand. Taken with a Canon 1D Mark IV, EF70-200mm f\/4L USM, 1\/100 s exposure at f\/9, ISO 640.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>..or on the side of a road&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure mx-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" alt=\"Fur seal sleeping on roadside\" title=\"A new Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) sleeping on roadside.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/fur-seal-15735.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A New Zealand fur seal sleeping on the side of a road. It wasn&#8217;t injured, and it wasn&#8217;t at all fazed by passing traffic (even a beautifully painted scooter). Kaikoura, New Zealand. Taken with a Canon 1D Mark IV, EF70-200mm f\/4L USM, 1\/80 s exposure at f\/7.1, ISO 400.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>..or in a car park&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure mx-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" alt=\"Fur seal sleeping in a car park\" title=\"A new Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) sleeping in a car park.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/fur-seal-15744.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A flax plant makes a nice looking pillow for a New Zealand fur seal sleeping in a planted traffic island in a car park. Kaikoura, New Zealand. Taken with a Canon 1D Mark IV, EF70-200mm f\/4L USM, 1\/250 s exposure at f\/7.1, ISO 640.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>..or in the middle of a boardwalk built to help prevent people from disturbing sleeping seals&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure mx-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\" alt=\"Fur seal sleeping on boardwalk\" title=\"A new Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) sleeping on a boardwalk.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/fur-seal-15724.jpg\" \/><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Fur seals may spend several weeks at sea before coming ashore. People are warned to not disturbed them as they rest between foraging trips, and a boardwalk helps keep visitors separate from seals that may be sleeping under vegetation along this popular stretch of coast near Kaikoura. It seems though, that no one told the seals! Taken with a Canon 1D Mark IV, EF16-35mm f\/2.8L II USM, 1\/8 s exposure at f\/6.3, ISO 250.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"figure float-xs-left\"><a href=\"\/new\/2011\/where-do-nz-fur-seals-sleep\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img blog-thumb\" alt=\"NZ fur seal\" title=\"Sleeping NZ fur seal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/images\/fur-seal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Q. Where do New Zealand fur seals sleep?<br \/>\nA. Wherever they like!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neilfitzgeraldphoto.co.nz\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}