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“Hey, Ma! There's a Baby Seal On Our Lawn!” Only in the Bridgewater Triangle
Friday, May 9, 2014 7:49
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| Baby Harp Seal. Imagine finding this guy on your lawn? |
“It is not uncommon for seals to leave the ocean and swim upstream in search of food, but the mammals usually turn around long before they have traveled a route equal to the Boston Marathon.”
What if I told you that today you would walk out of your house today and find a baby seal flopping around your lawn? Would you think I was nuts? Sounds nuts. But yet it actually happened! In early March of 2005, a young harbor seal was discovered in the backyard of house in East Bridgewater. Later that same month, another baby seal would would appear on the front lawn of a house in Middleboro.
The children of the Middleboro family wanted to keep theirs, a baby harp seal born just weeks before. They named him “Kelby.” The seal weighed a mere 32 pounds and had journeyed all the way from Mount Hope Bay in Fall River, a long 25 miles. Police were quickly called and soon after marine biologists arrived.
One of those marine biologists called to the scene was Belinda Runinstein, a seal specialist from the New England Aquarium. Rubinstein was very intrigued by this case. “What's interesting about this animal is he got himself really far in and up the creek,”
“Over the past two years, she has tagged 43 other seals, though none had traveled so far inland, she said. Rubinstein said it is not uncommon for seals to leave the ocean and swim upstream in search of food, but the mammals usually turn around long before they have traveled a route equal to the Boston Marathon,” The Boston Globe reported.
Animals that “don't belong” in the area of the Bridgewater Triangle–yet appear there nonetheless–is a common theme in this area's dark history. Alligators, Africal Sevril, mountain lions, panthers, peacocks, emu and cow moose are just some of the animals whose odd appearances made newspaper headlines. But seals? Come on. That has to be the strangest!
Source: http://www.thebridgewatertriangle.com/2014/05/hey-ma-theres-baby-seal-on-our-lawn.html
