SEAL PUPS - ORPHANS OF THE MEGA-STORM THAT HIT BRITAIN'S COASTS ARE RESCUED

 

PUPS WERE WASHED UP AFTER A TIDAL SURGE

HIT THE EAST COAST OF BRITAIN

More than 100 seal pups found washed up and away from their mothers after last week's awful weather when they were swept away from their mothers during the recent floods.  They were saved by rescue workers and are now under care at the Winch Wildlife Centre in Norfolk. 

 

The adorable pups, many of them under three weeks old, are in need of constant care.  Each pup is expected to need up to five months’ rehabilitation after being separated from its mother.  Now the centre has reached full capacity. It would appreciate donations to maintain this heavy volume of storm-refugee baby seals. 

 

Seal colonies are a common sight along the Norfolk coast as they come ashore to breed between November and January.  There had been fears that hundreds of seals would be killed when the highest tides on record hit the coast last Thursday and Friday.

 

Pups cannot swim or survive without their mother’s milk until they have shed their distinctive white fur.At one breeding ground in Horsey, volunteers counted 440 pups on the beach before the surge and only 177 after it hit.

 

See pictures of adorable baby seals and the rescue and rehabilitation efforts -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2521376/More-100-seal-pups-washed-away-mothers.html

 

 

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