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Harbour seals abandoning their pups

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I’ve heard that if humans or dogs approach seal pups too closely then their mothers will abandon them and I don’t understand why they abandon them. What makes the mother disassociate from her pup just because a dog went up to it submitted by /u/Popular-Twist-4087 [link] [comments]

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Flock to Marion

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Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species. None of the three voyagers made landfall due to poor weather and dangerous conditions.

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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

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A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Did you know a bird’s body has the ability to seal a small puncture wound within minutes? Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect. Suspect” dog or cat interactions.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press.

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Hitting Bottom in Brooklyn, or, A Boat Aground

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The islands have long been abandoned and now host heronries in the summer and a horde of gulls in the winter. A bunch of Harbor Seals of Swinburne Island was a nice consolation though. A bunch of Harbor Seals of Swinburne Island was a nice consolation though.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Like the other hornbills, it nests in a tree cavity, in which the female seals herself in using droppings and food remains. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.