A Seal Pup Loses Its Mom Destination WILD
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00:00 [SOUND]
00:04 Climate change may be behind the increase in huge storms like this.
00:07 [SOUND]
00:09 Potentially disastrous for wildlife.
00:11 [SOUND]
00:21 [MUSIC]
00:31 The gray seal pups are too young to swim.
00:36 So they're hauling themselves up onto the field beyond the beach.
00:39 [MUSIC]
00:45 This one's become separated from its mother.
00:47 [MUSIC]
00:50 It's tired and hungry.
00:52 [MUSIC]
00:57 At just a few days old, it needs two and a half liters of milk a day to survive.
01:02 [MUSIC]
01:13 If it can't find its mother quickly, it'll die.
01:16 [MUSIC]
01:26 Other females are highly territorial and attack pups in their patch.
01:44 So it must keep moving to stay alive.
01:46 [MUSIC]
01:56 In sheer desperation, it tries to suckle from another pup's flippers.
02:10 It's weakening fast.
02:13 [MUSIC]
02:15 And burning precious energy.
02:17 [MUSIC]
02:23 Malnutrition is the most common cause of death in seal pups.
02:26 [MUSIC]
02:37 [SOUND]
02:44 But astonishingly, the mother has found her way back to the lost pup.
02:48 [SOUND]
02:51 And at last, it's safe.
02:54 [SOUND]
03:02 [MUSIC]
03:12 [BLANK_AUDIO]