Pearl the seal’s long journey home ends in tragedy
Pearl the crabeater seal has died, her stomach stuffed with a load of beach sand, which twisted her gut.
The 120kg denizen of the Antarctic pack ice, used to suctioning up shrimp-like krill in her icebound sand-free home, succumbed after sucking up a load of silt in Jeffreys Bay as she foraged for food...
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