{"id":35841,"date":"2025-03-12T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/baby-sea-lion-acts-like-as-a-ribbon-dancer-when-playing-with-artificial-kelp-video\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:07:37","slug":"baby-sea-lion-acts-like-as-a-ribbon-dancer-when-playing-with-artificial-kelp-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/baby-sea-lion-acts-like-as-a-ribbon-dancer-when-playing-with-artificial-kelp-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby sea lion &#8216;acts like as a ribbon dancer&#8217; when playing with artificial kelp \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pepper, a nine-month-old sea lion, has mesmerised her carers by performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-style circles through the waters at Point Defiance zoo and aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. Noelle Tremonti, a biologist at the aquarium, says the strips help the pup learn how to interact with kelp, which grow in abundance in the animal&#8217;s natural environment, and how to explore her environment using her mouth. Pepper was the first sea lion born at the facility&#8217;s its 120-year history<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/12\/baby-sea-lion-acrobat-washington-state\">\u2018A ribbon dancer\u2019: captive baby sea lion performs acrobatics with artificial kelp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/video\/2025\/mar\/12\/baby-sea-lion-acts-like-as-a-ribbon-dancer-when-playing-with-artificial-kelp-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pepper, a nine-month-old sea lion, has mesmerised her carers by performing intricate rhythmic gymnastics-style circles through the waters at Point Defiance zoo and aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. Noelle Tremonti, a biologist at the aquarium, says the strips help the pup learn how to interact with kelp, which grow in abundance in the animal&#8217;s natural environment, &#8230; <a title=\"Baby sea lion &#8216;acts like as a ribbon dancer&#8217; when playing with artificial kelp \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/baby-sea-lion-acts-like-as-a-ribbon-dancer-when-playing-with-artificial-kelp-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Baby sea lion &#8216;acts like as a ribbon dancer&#8217; when playing with artificial kelp \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}