Rare Sea Creature Appears on Seattle Woman’s Dock
LiveScience.com – Fri, Jan 20, 2012
Hey, stranger! This guy must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. CREDIT: LDA.
A Seattle resident recently got a big surprise when she discovered a strange-looking furry visitor on her property.
“She woke up and it was lying on her dock, hanging out and sleeping — just chilling,” said Matthew Cleland, district supervisor in western Washington for the USDA’s Wildlife Services, and the recipient of a photo of the bizarre intruder.
“I thought, ‘That’s an interesting-looking creature,’” Cleland told OurAmazingPlanet. “I had no idea what it was.”
A quick glance through a book in his office soon revealed it was a ribbon seal, an Arctic species that spends most of its life at sea, swimming the frigid waters off Alaska and Russia.
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