Spanish Oddities
What a silly foca...
By h.b. - Nov 16, 2007 - 1:32 PM
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What a silly foca…
Foca is the Spanish word for seal, and news comes that an Artic seal, named Sahara, had to be rescued when found on a beach in Ondarroa near San Sebastian.
The animal had swum 1,000 miles in search of warmer water and the sun, after being fitted with a tracking device when earlier found undernourished and bald in his normal habitat of the Orkney Islands.
The satellite tracker was installed by a seal sanctuary in Cornwall where the animal recovered before being returned to the Orkneys. The recovery was from his previous adventure when the animal was the seal was first found out of place on the Canary Islands last April.
Quite why he decides to head for Spain instead of the Artic seems a bit a mystery, but perhaps he simply followed the fish along the continental shelf.
More information on the story at the National Seal Sanctuary website here.