Sick seal lost in Vladivostok

In Vladivostok caught seal lionfish, which inhabits the far Northern seas. When inspecting veterinarians is that the animal has been poisoned fish.

In the Golden horn Bay in Vladivostok caught a seal-lionfish inhabiting the Northern seas, TASS informs. Unusual for these places color of the cat was immediately interested local residents.

Workers saw a seal that is different from the local spotted animals of a uniform color, on the pier "Dalzavod". Found the guest looked painful, and factory workers called experts from the rehabilitation center "Seal".

Vets immediately put the seals in quarantine because it had strong indicators of poisoning requiring serious therapy. Most likely, the animal has been poisoned fish.

As told the Director of the center "Seal" Laura Baloian, at the moment the animal is already getting better. Once the seal will eventually recover, it is scheduled to release off the coast of Primorye. Send the animal in native places were very expensive. "Release here, where more cold currents, and we hope that over time the seal itself will find its way to the North," said Baloian.

Seals-lionfish love cold waters of the Bering, Okhotsk and Bering seas. How the animal was thousands of miles from its usual habitat, to this day remains a mystery.

Lionfish or banded seal is representative of the kind of real seals. Long these animals can reach up to 2 meters. The body color of this species of seal-black or gray-brown with a distinctive broad bright bands around the head, front flippers and the sacrum. Females have striped pattern less contrasting than in males.

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