Alaska SeaLife Center takes in 2 abandoned harbor seal pups - Alaska Public Media

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The Wildlife Response Team at the SeaLife Center got a call in early June about two harbor seal pups in Kasilof that were emaciated and still had their umbilical cords attached. They've been eating and growing well since.

The Alaska SeaLife Center Wildlife Response Program admitted the first two harbor seal pup patients of the summer on June 2, 2022.

“It just so happens that when he was talking to us about that pup, another pup came out of the water nearby,” said Jane Belovarac, the wildlife response curator at the center, which rescues and rehabilitates marine mammals like harbor seals. Belovarac said that’s because often, as pups get older, seal moms might leave them on the beach or in the water to go hunting before coming back for them.

“Most of the time, we never know what was the circumstance that caused the animals to be separated from their mom,” she said.

 

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