The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward is caring for two abandoned harbor seal pups that were found on a beach in Kasilof. They've been eating and growing well, and vets hope to release them back to the ocean soon.
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. “I’d say 95% of the time we never know what happens to the mom when we have a pup that’s by itself,” Belovarac said. “We try to give a certain amount of time, depending on the species, for the mom to reunite with the pups, but sometimes if there’s danger to the pup or there’s danger of public interacting with the pup, and the pup definitely needs help, we’ll bring it in. But ideally, we try to give the pup time to reunite with its mom.
In this case, she said, the first pup — a female who appeared to be just a couple days old — was too skinny, indicating she hadn’t been fed by her mother. And the second one, a male, was brand new and didn’t have an adult in sight. Harbor seals start to pup in May, and these are the first seals the SeaLife Center has brought in this year. But Belovarac said it’s hard to say how many more abandoned pups they might get.
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