Seals Invade North Carolina
When are people going to wake up to the threat of the animal uprising? They keep shrugging off the warnings we give them and keep looking at us like we're crazy or something. Or they keep hanging up on us when we call them. Like the North Carolina state aquarium. We called just to let them know that while one Arctic ice seal on a beach in the Southern part of the state might be a navigation error, more than half a dozen in two months constitute an invasion!
The 4-foot-long seal didn't seem to be emaciated and growled at beachgoers at Wrightsville Beach, said Ann Pabst, a marine biologist at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. It was taken to the state aquarium.
"An ice seal, by definition, is out of habitat when it's found this far south," Pabst said.
The seal's appearance on a southern beach isn't unprecedented, said Wendy Walton, a veterinarian technician with the Virginia Aquariums stranding program.
A half dozen wayward ice seals have been brought to the facility in the past two months. The seals have been found as far south as Florida and the Caribbean. Walton said it was too early to tell whether the seal would be released.
This isn't the Good Housekeeping seal folks. These things are savage. Wait until swimmers start getting treated like beach balls. Then maybe they'll stop slamming the phone down when they hear us on the other end of the line.
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By Quilly Mammoth, Saturday, 16 September , 2006 @ 4:48 pm
Smart seal…everyone knows Wrightsville is best visited in September after the tourists leave. Great fishing then as well.