07/08/2015
Do the seals change their habits?
New Scientist reports about changes in habits of seals. From South Africa and Netherlands people got information that seals attacked and killed blue sharks and harbor porpoises.
In South Africa the seals hunted the blue sharks, killed them and eaten bowels. Usually seals used to feed on smaller fish, squids but not sharks who are almost the same size.
On the coast of Netherlands many dolphins were found dead with huge wounds, heavy blooded, with bellies ripped. Investigation showed that the seals killed them. The scientists think they did it on purpose but not to feed only to play a bloody game. Probably the seals in that area started to feel on porpoises caught in fishing nets which changed their taste and habits and made them to kill alive mammals.
Photos by Chris Fallows and Utah People's Post
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