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CTV News
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
This 16-year-old seal lion may be better at dancing than humans
Watch Sixteen-year-old dancing seal, Ronan, is teaching humans a few tricks about rhythm and beat predictions.
BBC News
15-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Underweight seal flown from Isles of Scilly to Cornwall sanctuary
An underweight and lone seal pup has been flown from the Isles of Scilly to a seal sanctuary in Davey, from British Divers Marine Life Rescue, said the pup was about five days old and had been initially spotted alone on an inaccessible beach on Tresco on female pup made its way to St Mary's harbour but rescuers said she was underweight and alone, so they asked Penzance Helicopters if they could manage an extra passenger on pup, which has been called Grub, was taken to the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek. Rescuers said Grub was "progressing well" and was on a diet of fish soup four times a day. Ms Davey told BBC Radio Cornwall: "The pup was clearly underweight, it only weighed 13kg (28.6lbs) and it still had its umbilicus so it was, we reckon, probably four to five days old."It has a full white of coat, which they have for the first three weeks, and it had not started to moult."She said Penzance Helicopters had "bent over backwards" to help ensure the pup got the timely care it needed.A spokesperson for Penzance Helicopters said: "It's not always about supporting the islands with a lifeline link for people, sometimes we get a curve ball and we are always happy to help."
BBC News
13-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Rescuers find 'seal in distress' is just a rock
Rescuers called out to help a seal crying in distress off the North East Lincolnshire coast found the struggling animal was actually just a large rock. A member of the public contacted Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue on Sunday with concerns over the seal's safety. A vet and two volunteers scanned the beach with no joy – and when they asked the caller for an exact location, they realised it was a large seal-shaped rock. Aaron Goss, lead rescuer at the charity, said: "We are frequently telling people not to approach seals and to not disturb them. The rock did look like a seal, so the member of the public [has] done the right thing." He added: "They have stayed back and contacted [us] to give us the heads up, so they have done nothing wrong at all and, of course, it is quite humorous that it was just a rock. "I don't know where she heard the crying from, but that's not a problem – maybe it was a passing gull!" Mr Goss said the call-out came from the Wonderland end of the beach. "She was adamant it was not moving very much but she said it had been moving and she could hear it calling," he said. "A guy had zoomed in on his phone camera and it was definitely a seal. "We were scanning the beach for a really long time, trying to figure out where on earth is this seal. "Eventually, we called her back and asked her for a bit more information, and managed to find – from the description that she had given with the new location –that it was definitely a rock." It was not the first time something had been misidentified as a seal. "A few years ago, we had a log wash up a bit further out on the beach, and people mistook that for a seal," Mr Goss said. "And, again, it did look like a seal from quite a distance. "It's not a problem. We can get the big binoculars out and double-check." The rescue organisation said it was always better to be safe than sorry, and reports of concerns about animals would be followed up. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
12-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Rescuers find that 'crying seal in distress' is just a rock
Rescuers called out to help a seal crying in distress off the North East Lincolnshire coast found the struggling animal was actually just a large rock.A member of the public contacted Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue on Sunday with concerns over the seal's safety. A vet and two volunteers scanned the beach with no joy – and when they asked the caller for an exact location, they realised it was a large seal-shaped Goss, lead rescuer at the charity, said: "We are frequently telling people not to approach seals and to not disturb them. The rock did look like a seal, so the member of the public [has] done the right thing." He added: "They have stayed back and contacted [us] to give us the heads up, so they have done nothing wrong at all and, of course, it is quite humorous that it was just a rock."I don't know where she heard the crying from, but that's not a problem – maybe it was a passing gull!"Mr Goss said the call-out came from the Wonderland end of the beach."She was adamant it was not moving very much but she said it had been moving and she could hear it calling," he said."A guy had zoomed in on his phone camera and it was definitely a seal. "We were scanning the beach for a really long time, trying to figure out where on earth is this seal."Eventually, we called her back and asked her for a bit more information, and managed to find – from the description that she had given with the new location –that it was definitely a rock."It was not the first time something had been misidentified as a seal."A few years ago, we had a log wash up a bit further out on the beach, and people mistook that for a seal," Mr Goss said."And, again, it did look like a seal from quite a distance."It's not a problem. We can get the big binoculars out and double-check."The rescue organisation said it was always better to be safe than sorry, and reports of concerns about animals would be followed up. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
CBS News
08-05-2025
- CBS News
Baby seal found stabbed multiple times on Oregon beach; search underway for suspect
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon. The seal survived the March attack in a cove in the small town of Neskowin, which sits along the Pacific Ocean, NOAA said Monday. The administration's marine stranding team was able to move it to a more secluded beach in Washington state last month. Its wounds were healing, it had grown to about 300 pounds and there were no signs that the stabbing was going to have "lasting effects," Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries West Coast region, said in an email. This April 2025 photo provided by Seaside Aquarium shows a baby seal who the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said was stabbed on an Oregon beach in March. Tiffany Boothe / AP The agency's law enforcement office, which is investigating the attack, was searching for a "person of interest" spotted by a witness. NOAA released a sketch of the person, describing him as a white man with a groomed beard and a large gap between his front teeth. Officials were also looking for the owner of a vehicle seen in a parking lot near the cove behind a condominium building that may be connected with the Sunday evening attack, according to NOAA. The agency described the vehicle as a dark blue 1990s Dodge or Chrysler van, adding that a rear window was covered in plastic and the interior of the van appeared to be cluttered. Officials are asking anyone with information on the person of interest, vehicle owner or attack to call NOAA's enforcement hotline. In the spring and summer, juvenile elephant seals will often drag themselves onto Oregon's beaches to spend weeks shedding their hair and skin, according to Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute. Adult elephant seals are rarely seen in the state. The seal that was stabbed likely left its mother very recently and was on its own to learn to hunt, Milstein said. Once it had grown a bit more, it would have likely made its way back to breeding areas around the Channel Islands off Southern California. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is searching for the person who stabbed a baby seal multiple times on a beach in Oregon. NOAA released a sketch of a person of interest. The federal Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits harassing, harming, killing or feeding wild elephant seals and other marine mammals. Violators can face criminal penalties of up to $100,000 in fines and up to 1 year in jail. Last year, a bottlenose dolphin was found shot to death on a Louisiana beach, prompting authorities to offer a $20,000 reward.
