{"id":72914,"date":"2026-05-01T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/mother-knows-best-as-sea-otter-adopts-orphaned-pup-at-california-aquarium\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:54:58","slug":"mother-knows-best-as-sea-otter-adopts-orphaned-pup-at-california-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/mother-knows-best-as-sea-otter-adopts-orphaned-pup-at-california-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother knows best as sea otter adopts orphaned pup at California aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rey is teaching Sunny, aged about two weeks, all her adopted baby needs to know to fend for herself<\/p>\n<p>Before last month, a young southern sea otter named Rey would never have imagined she would be a mother.<\/p>\n<p>That changed when she met Sunny, a pup \u2013 about two weeks old \u2013 found orphaned and alone on Asilomar state beach in February. The pairing went off without a hitch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/01\/sea-otters-mother-adopts-orphaned-pup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rey is teaching Sunny, aged about two weeks, all her adopted baby needs to know to fend for herself Before last month, a young southern sea otter named Rey would never have imagined she would be a mother. That changed when she met Sunny, a pup \u2013 about two weeks old \u2013 found orphaned and &#8230; <a title=\"Mother knows best as sea otter adopts orphaned pup at California aquarium\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/mother-knows-best-as-sea-otter-adopts-orphaned-pup-at-california-aquarium\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mother knows best as sea otter adopts orphaned pup at California aquarium\">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-72914","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\/72914","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=72914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}