The story of the seal rescued on Sunday did not end: another one was found on Monday

The seal was indeed at the Lithuanian Maritime Museum on Monday morning.

The museum opened a Baltic Sea animal rehabilitation center a few years ago.

Seals and birds thrown out by sea waves, injured, end up here. After treatment, they are released.

As Arūnas Grušas, the head of the Marine Mammals and Birds Department of the museum, said, the female seal found by Saulius was exhausted, tired, but unharmed.

The baby weighed 15 kilograms. Now she is prescribed antibiotics and primary rehabilitation, fluid balance is being restored. For the time being, the seal is fed through a tube with a special mashed mixture of rehydron, herring, various vitamins and trace elements.

A second seal was found in Giruliai on Monday

On Monday, the museum received information regarding another seal on the Giruli coast. “Be my friend” public institution transports him to the Lithuanian Maritime Museum for rehabilitation.

Every year, more than 20 seal pups, injured adult seals and birds are found on the coast of Lithuania. Wounded, sick seals or lost seal pups are treated, rehabilitated, and when they are stronger, they are released back into the Baltic Sea.

According to a statement issued by the museum, if you see a seal on the coast, please call the General Emergency Center on 112.

The employee of the general assistance center transmits the information regarding the seal found on the coast to the responsible museum staff and to the institution responsible for bringing the seals to VšĮ “Būk mano graugas”, who, following finding out the location, organize the animal’s delivery to the Baltic Sea Animal Rehabilitation Center.

Museum specialists, upon spotting a seal on the coast, ask: do not drive the seal back into the water, do not feed it, do not touch it, protect it from dogs and too many curious people. May the baby rest in peace. If possible, please wait until help arrives.

Baltic gray seals (Halichoerus grypus macrorhychus) – a rare, endangered species, listed in the Red Books of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Russia. There are already 10,000 of these seals living in the Baltic Sea. years.