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Record Year for Sick Seals in San Pedro,CA

Critter News

But they are all seriously ill with malnutrition, gaping wounds from fishing line injuries, broken and scarred fins, busted jaws or brain damage from domoic acid poisoning. Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. Tags: marine animals seals sea lions.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The Crowned Hornbill is among those hornbills in which during incubation the female seals herself into a tree cavity using her own droppings. On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ). UysI and G.