WHERE would be the last place you would
expect to find a live seal?
The Swedish forest, perhaps?
A baby seal has somehow managed to find
its way six kilometres from open water,
turning up in a dense Swedish forest area,
found by a hiker walking in the woods.
Local police inspector Henrik Pedersen said
he thought the hiker was joking when he
called to say he had found a seal in the bush.
Police believe the pup had become
separated from its mother and mistakingly
travelled in the wrong direction over three
kilometres of snow and three in the forest.
The seal happily swam away when
authorities collected it and released into the
nearby Dalaelven river system after giving it a
quick health check by a local veterinarian.
