Seals
Dec 26 2006, Irani

Though on one hand, the conservationists have all reasons to be delighted to find the ‘once hunted to extinction’ fur seal reaching the record levels by breeding so lustily, on the other, their hearty appetite has given birth to fears that they...

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Norddeich:

Seal pup Eddy peeks out of a basket, at the Norddeich port, northern Germany, before being transported to the sands of the island of Juist. Eddy was raised in a station for abandoned seals in Norddeich and will be released into the North Sea.