{"id":6009,"date":"2024-10-04T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T10:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guardna.wpenginepowered.com\/true-seal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:05:58","slug":"true-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/true-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"True seal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Also known as \u201cearless\u201d seals, true seals belong to a group of pinnipeds that have ear holes, but lack an external ear flap. While sea lions belong to the group of pinnipeds, they are not true seals because they have ear flaps. Grey seals instead, are true seals.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/true-seal_Credit-Michael-Polterman.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 949px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 949\/928;width:500px;height:auto\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\" style=\"font-size: 15px;text-align: center;\">True, or \u201cearless\u201d seal (harbour seal) \u00a9 Michael Poltermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as \u201cearless\u201d seals, true seals belong to a group of pinnipeds that have ear holes, but lack an external ear flap. While sea lions belong to the group of pinnipeds, they are not true seals because they have ear flaps. Grey seals instead, are true seals. True, or \u201cearless\u201d seal (harbour seal) \u00a9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,115,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-15-years-fao","category-glossary-fao","category-t-fao"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marina Metic","author_link":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/author\/marinam\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardna-educ.com\/fao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}