It feels great to bring some good news. Especially because its such an endangered specie. Lucky the Japanese, Icelandic, Chinese and of course who could forget the the Canadians clubbers are far away from this colony.
But the bad news is, this could be happening more frequently than we know…
“…The researchers say that the human activity has encroached into the seals’ habitat and that this is pushing the animals from the beaches into caves. This has increased the likelihood of newborn pups being swept out of caves by storm surges and becoming separated from their mothers”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9416000/9416895.stm