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A baby's first achievements are important. First crawls, first steps, first words: diligent parents track these milestones throughout the initial months and years of a baby's life as the infant grows and develops so quickly. Well, "quickly" is a relative term. A human baby can spread his or her firsts across an entire calendar year, but a newborn harbor seal doesn't have time for that kind of lollygagging. When you watch this video, bear in mind that this baby seal was born mere hours before the footage was shot. This baby spends its first day of life taking its first steps, diving into water for the first time, having its first swim and barking its first "words." And you can tell how proud ...
We were sure it was sleep apnea, so we took him in for a sleep study, but the seal docs said nope, no CPAP machine necessary, nor surgery. "This old fella doesn't have sleep apnea," the doc told us. "He just got one mother of a sinus infection. Just on the one side. See how he's only getting air through one nostril while the other one stays shut up tight? There's your problem." So what do we do, Doc? "It's a bacterial infection, so I'll put him on a course of antibiotics that should knock it out flat. He'll be right as rain in a week or so." OK, fine, but before you fix him up... just let me grab a few seconds of video for posterity. ...
by Cat Lincoln Watch the (non-graphic) HSUS video about the seal hunt. Photo: HSUS I was caught by surprise again this year: the Canadian commercial seal hunt started yesterday, which I found out in an alert from the Humane Society of the United States. It just doesn't make any sense to me -- how can the brutal bludgeoning and murder of defenseless baby seals continue, year after year, with permission from the Canadian government, despite having every possible reason to stop the hunt? In past years -- I mean long ago -- commercial fishermen would pick up some extra cash during the spring off-season by hunting seal for the international fur market. That particular form of ...
Our furry, feathered and scaly friends come in all shapes and sizes, and so do their sniffers. From squashed and wrinkled to big and bulbous, these snouts are sure to garner a double take. Sure it's impolite to stare, but with schnozzes like these, who can blame you? http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=920209&pid=920208&uts=1281631500 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf The Nose Knows The star-nosed mole is native to eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States. If you've never seen one, don't be surprised; these critters spend ...