Children's home for orphaned seals

landfall this year on the Dutch coast storms have led to the emergence of a large number of orphaned seals, which elements are separated from their mothers and washed ashore. Some of them are so small that they are still sticking pupovina.

1. A volunteer feeds a seal herring in the nursery for seals in the Dutch town of Groningen. In the local shelter for orphaned animals, a host of young seals and sea lions.

2. Because of the raging sea storm in recent days, the shelter is filled with new inhabitants.

3. Volunteers are fed with a mixture of young seals grated herring. Cubs strayed from their relatives and were abandoned to their fate. Local vets picked seals and took under his wing.

4. Nursery seals in the northern town of Groningen flooded small and adult seals, so that the leadership had to place them in baths and tanks while they recover.

5. All of them eventually returned to the wild.

6. Volunteer (right) puts the medicine in a herring, which will feed tyuleney.

7. Seals swim in the pond in the nursery of the city of Groningen.

8. makeshift manger all the conditions for the younger generation: regular meals, cots and blankets to the pool.

9. "The storms and tides create problems for seals because the sandy beaches, where they like to lie, remain under water" - says Lenny Hart, who founded the nursery, formerly Research Center seal.

10. Over the past 10 days in the nursery was taken over 100 seals, so that the total number of "guests" has grown to 350 mammals.

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