Tag: harbor seal

Interactions between Sharks and Seals off the coast of Cape Cod

Aug 23, 2017 Emmy Rosseal

One of the big draws for tourists to the Cape over the past few years has been the ever growing Grey Seal population. This has also attracted another kind of visitor to the waters off Cape Cod: the Great White Shark! Great White populations off the coast of the Cape have increased significantly over the […]

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Strandings: Harbor Seals vs. Grey Seals

Aug 16, 2017 Grey Seal

With Harbor Seal pup season in full swing at the National Marine Life Center, many visitors have been curious about why seals strand. Between the four species of seals that can be found within our harbor, harbor seals and grey seals are the two we primarily rehabilitate. During the different seasons of the year, stranding […]

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Meet Sealbert, Seally, and Giseale!

Jul 14, 2017 Giseale

On June 6, 2017, the National Marine Life Center welcomed two new harbor seal pups, bringing us to ten seals!  Continuing our Sealebrity theme, our two new pups are named Sealbert Einstein and Seally Ride.  On June 20, 2017, NMLC welcomed our eleventh harbor seal pup, GIseale Bundchen.  All three pups were determined to be […]

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Meet Our Four New Rambunctious Pups!

Jul 10, 2017 Dian Fosseal

Sealvia Earle is our fifth harbor seal pup of this year’s harbor seal pupping season! She is named after Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist, author, lecturer, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence. Sealvia was picked up in Middle Hardwood Island, ME and brought to NMLC by Allied Whale at the College of the Atlantic. She was admitted […]

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Rachel Carseal and Ralph Waldo Emerseal are here!

Jun 20, 2017 2017

­­Rachel Carseal, our third harbor pup seal of the 2017 harbor seal pupping season, was named after the legendary marine biologist, environmentalist, and writer Rachel Carson. After being stranded on Chebeague Island, Maine, the Marie Mammals of Maine brought her to us on May 23rd for examination and rehabilitation. She came in weighting 8.7 kg […]

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Meet Jane Goodseal and Johnny Appleseal!

Jun 7, 2017 2017

Harbor pup season has officially started here at NMLC. We expect to take in nearly a dozen pups which will bring our hospital to maximum capacity.  Johnny Appleseal is our first seal pup of the year! He was found in Plymouth, MA on April 13th, 2017, and brought to us by NEAQ.  He was admitted […]

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Seal Rogers Williams Swims Free!

May 2, 2017 harbor seal

Seal Rogers Williams had been with us for nearly 7 months, so we are so excited that he is finally back in the ocean! He stranded at Rye Harbor State Park in Rye, NH and was brought to us by the Seacoast Science Center rescue team at the end of September, 2016. Rogers originally came […]

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Seal Pup Shower – Saturday, April 22, 2017

Apr 17, 2017 April Vacation Week

We’re expecting here at the National Marine Life Center…. Seal pups, that is! Late April through June is harbor seal pupping season in New England, and one of the busiest times for our marine wildlife rehabilitation hospital. Each year, many pups are abandoned by their mothers – often due to human interaction – and will […]

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NMLC’s 12 Needs of Christmas- think of the animals this holiday season

Nov 25, 2016 Christmas

It’s the holiday season, time to think of those in need! Please remember the seals and sea turtles that need your help this season as well. While you are out doing your last minute  holiday shopping this week, pick up a small gift for our seal patients Beyonseal, and Frankenseal,  or the sea turtle patients […]

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Back to Seallywood!

Sep 1, 2016 harbor seal

Seally Fields and Seal Patrick Harris have successfully risen to the A-listers of marine animal rehabilitation! They both have come a long way since their arrival here just over a month ago and are ready to give it their all back at Seallywood (in the ocean). Seally Field, named for the actress Sally Field, was collected from Owl’s […]

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