Tidal Surge Sweeps Seal Pups Into Sea
From Times Wire Reports
About 1,500 seal pups were swept into the sea and drowned by a tidal surge at a small island off Canada’s east coast.
A resident of Pictou Island described how the mother seals frantically tried to push their tiny pups back onto land as they floundered in the storm-tossed water.
Gray seals in the Northumberland Strait usually give birth on pack ice that forms in winter. But abnormally warm conditions this year meant there was no ice in the strait.
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