INJURED SEAL AT NAPIER
The young seal at present quartered in a wood-shed at Mr. W. H. Carter's residence on the Marine Parade, Napier, is apparently making good progress towards recovery from the effects of the injury to its shoulder. Mr. Carter informed a representative of the "Daily Telegraph" that an authority who had examined the seal during the weekend had expressed the view that the wound would heal within two or three days. He had addedi that there was no cause for concern in the fact that the seal refuses to eat, for the reason.that the herd—from which the creature probably became separated when it sustained its injury—invariably feasted before leaving Auckland Island and could subsist for three or four weeks without further food. The authority is of the view that the seal will be ready to take to the sea again before the end of the present week— always providing it wants to.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 5
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155INJURED SEAL AT NAPIER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 5
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