Seals for "ice disaster" stranded seals Bay?

The seal's "ice disaster" nothing happened "artificial landscape visiting Yantai seal Bay " aroused widespread interest in the "seal" trapped in the ice.

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Beijing News "new known weekly recently, a group reflect the" Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea ice disaster "of photos, a small seals lie in the ice photos especially compelling.

Photographer on this photo of the note is due to the very low temperature, Yantai Eastern Fort scenic eco-seals in the Bay area icing, 60 Bull spotted seal were trapped. For the seals, reporters went out of his way to the seal Bay.

Yellow Sea really is frozen

This year's Yantai really special cold, 2010-1-12, the Shandong Peninsula North Yellow Sea side of the city's lowest temperature reached minus 13 degrees.

A new round of cold air brought strong winds blowing from midnight the following day in the afternoon. Unlike the cold, wind and not brought Yantai persons quite heavy snow in the morning, just briefly landed a thin layer. This is because the experienced head and tail were several cold wave, sea water temperature in the Bohai Sea, the sea area of sharp decline in the freezing, past RI smells rich, moist Ocean breath of wind today become dry, like most northern cities of the North wind.

Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea has 40 years of ice, frozen in the ice of fishing in people to the day after tomorrow "in the scene, while seals Bay spotted seal of" dangerous "for many people worried.

Spotted seal is a widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere sea seal, it is also close to the people in the field to only one kind of seals. Liaodong Peninsula to Shandong Peninsula between a series of islands are spotted seal most South a breeding area.

Garden seals lazily in the Sun.

"Seal Bay" is the artificial landscape

However, "the seal's Bay" is a landscape of artificial feeding seals.

p> The author in Yantai life for five years, and had not heard of such a "seal Bay". In order to find out what, 12 December afternoon, I came to the Park. East Fort Park is located in Yantai City seaside landscape with a central location, the Park of the fortress is the Beiyang Navy used to guard the important loosed Zhifu Bay. In winter, this is the beach area of the low season, days of the snow and cold weather is that this is scarce tourists stay in the home. The gate of the Park, ticket office small door closed, around a half a day to see a female conductor came out from the doorman. Tickets $ 30, the price list also clearly marked "feed the seals $ a". Follow the signs to go straight to the seal Bay, went down a small hill, seal Cove, at the foot of the beach. Cement wall and the iron fence will be a few hundred square meters large pool and the sea. Far from seeing the small pond of the "island" lay some seals, a closer look at is the cement model. Real seal are gathered at the southeast corner of the pond, the north half of the water surface with a layer of thin ice, not nearly as serious media rendering. In addition, spotted seal is not afraid of icing, as long as adequate food, they are more willing to life on the ice, to know the propagation spotted seal is done on the pack ice.

The seal's life is fairly good

The West is a cistern and a small pool of connected, this is the performance area, pool hangs two flat red balloons, opposite the grandstand hundreds of seats on snow is the only audience.

Performance area of a sign told us the seal Bay's main source of income — — — $ 5 "seals viewfinder, seal Kiss face viewfinder once for $ 10, $ 10 for imaging camera, an imaging Pro face $ 20." Approaching the seals, found their nutritional status also works well, in addition to individual seals some small scar.

Park in the "services" in the price list.

Inventory, a total of more than 20 p

ool only seals, several shape larger seals on the ice, wandering, the rest of you together. At four o'clock, feeding time, a breeder to frozen small Spanish mackerel huadong, seals were packed away from the "kitchen" recent fence, some restlessness. A box of fish sown, instantly would be boiling seals were robbed a light. A total of over 5 box fish, breeder said, this is the seal are the only day meal, approximately every header seals can uniformly to five pounds of fish.

In the spelling in the "footprint" of the seals, as Pas de deux.

Staff in feeding the seals.

As in previous reports in the media has said there are 60 head seal and I visually far so much.

Put this question to seal Bay a staff, his explanation is: "that is the foreign claims, we shout out over 100 head. " As the source of these seals, the staff could not be released.

Finally, I asked the staff, so many seals, we have a breeding plan?

"Breeding program that you want to see the seals are not planned.

They have plans to, otherwise there is nothing we can do. ”

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