Sick seal pup found on East Hampton beach
Quick ReadRescue program director Kim Durham said the seal pup was found to have an elevated white blood cell count indicating the presence of an infection.
Photo credit: Doug Kuntz | A distressed Harbor seal pup is seen, Sunday, near the beach near where a humpback whale washed up in East Hampton last week. (April 11, 2010)
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An East Hampton village police sergeant's search of a 4-mile stretch of ocean beach Sunday morning did not turn up the dart used last week in an unsuccessful attempt to sedate a beached whale.
But Sgt. Richard Mamay, combing the beaches in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, did find a female gray seal pup just west of where the whale washed up. He notified the Riverhead Foundation, and staff arrived...
