Cornish Seal Sanctuary Issue 135 August 2017 Back The school holidays are drawing to an end, we hope you all had a lovely summer, and had a chance to visit the Cornish Seal Sanctuary. If you did visit on a sunny day you might have caught Jarvis, Boo, Buddy and Babyface (photo above) the resident common seals, enjoying the afternoon sun. During August, the seal hospital has been having a bit of a make over, when the work is finished there will be 3 extra pens for rescued pups. Click here to see the before and after photos. Taylor, a member of the Animal Care team, has waved goodbye and moved on to new adventures, but left her mark in the concrete. The Animal Care Team are getting in plently of target training with the resident animals before the rescued seal pups join them in the Convalescent pool. We hope you enjoy the selection of photos taken during this month, just click here or on the photo of your choice below to see a larger version of the image. Can you guess how old Sheba is? Cheeky Ray has a Facebook Page. Are you following him? Natalie and Megan feeding and target training Natalie, Megan and Emma feeding and target training Snoopy by Natalie´s side during her feed talk! Grace doing target training with Badger and Pumpkin Babyface is probably the oldest common seal in captivity! Common Seals - Bo, Jarvis and Buddy Jarvis being very rude poking his tongue out! Sunny - Californian Sea Lion Grace is feeding Diego - Patagonian Sea Lion Tamara, Sanctuary´s Curator, doing target training with Diego Attraction´s Leaflet Click here to download a printer friendly pdf version of the Sanctuary´s leaflet. André - Californian Sea Lion Snoopy - Resident Grey Seal Convalescent Pool and Nursery Pools Humboldt Penguins have finished their annual moult! Humboldt Penguins - l-r - Lola, Gilbert, Yoni and Pine Asian Short-Clawed Otter - Harris (left) and Apricot (right) Harris and Apricot waiting to be rewarded for their training! Bracken - Shetland Pony Patrick (left) and Florence (right) Pygmy Goats - Dennis, Marvin, Bertie and Arnie Pygmy Goat - Steve Jinx, Rescued Seal Jinx, rescued juvenile seal, is currently in the nursery pool, she is getting plenty of fish supplemented with fluids and multivitamins. Photo below of Jinx was taken on 15th August 2017. If you find a Seal in the Wild For 60 years the Sanctuary has been rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing those pups from our local coastline that find themselves in trouble, whether it be eye problems, respiratory infections and malnourishment to broken bones, pollution-related problems and being separated from their mother too soon. Just like to remind you that if you discover a seal pup that is in distress or alone, please call the Seal Sanctuary on 01326 221361 and/or the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) team on 01825 765546. DO keep your distance; DON´T attempt to handle the pup; DON´T attempt to put the pup in the sea; DON´T ignore the situation; DO tell the appropriate organisation. If you have seen a seal disturbed in to the sea as a result of human activity or a dead seal, please call the Cornwall Wildlife Trust´s marine hotline: 0345 201 26 26. A grey seal gets lucky! Every year seals around our coast are injured or killed by discarded and old fishing gear. Young seals are most at risk because they like to play with the old nets with monofilament lines, but rescuing them can be very tricky. Click here to read more. Sue and Dan from CSGRT and BDMLR did an interview with BBC Spotlight about this rescue. Click here to watch. Well done to Sue, Kate, Dan, Tamara, Chris and Phil. Great Team work. This seal was spotted for the first time back in the wild since his rescue exactly 20 days later on 23rd August at a location close to his rescue site. Sue said it is incredibly he looks to have nearly healed. Post Monitoring of Seals With each update we will name any tagged seals spotted in the wild by members of the Cornwall Seal Group Research Trust (CSGRT) around the coast of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly:- Pebbles on 27th August 2017, Elvis on 1st & 10th August 2017 and Octopus on 1st & 3rd August 2017. This information regarding tagged seals seen in the wild is copyright of the CSGRT. Seal "injured" in boat accident The Cornish Seal Sanctuary, Cornwall Seal Group Research Group, British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and other Campaigners are urging people not to feed seals after one was "badly injured" in St Ives, Cornwall. It reportedly happened when passengers fed the seal off the back of a boat in the harbour on 23rd August 2017 - the seal got caught in the propellors. Dan Jarvis of the BDMLR said in a recent interview to the local Pirate FM Radio 102.2 & 102.8 "To the best of our knowledge, one of the local boats in the harbour returned from a trip and one of the passengers was allegedly feeding a seal off the back off the boat when it suddenly reversed and hit the seal." Click here to read more. Seals are seen in harbours quite often especially at St Ives and Newquay (photo below). Please take photos of any seals you see in and around St Ives in Cornwall. CSGRT want to know if the injured pregnant female seal has survived. Please email your photos to Sue@cornwallsealgroup.co.uk. This news update has been put together by volunteers/supporters of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary.

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