Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CAMDEN, N.J., April 4 (UPI) -- A young grey seal has taken a wrong turn and headed up the Delaware River to the Philadelphia area. The seal, believed to be 2 months old, was first spotted Sunday and has been feeding in the river and resting onshore on the New Jersey side of the river around Camden and Gloucester City. Experts say the seal was probably attracted into the river by the schools of herring and shad heading upriver for the spring spawning. Advertisement "It's not an everyday occurrence, but it isn't the first time this has happened," Robert Schoelkopf of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center told the Camden Courier-Post. "We've seen them all the way up to Bordentown." Schoelkopf said that once the food supply dries up the seal will probably follow the current back to the ocean and the coastline up to Maine. Last year, a beluga whale attracted huge crowds in the Delaware, getting as far upriver as Trenton, 30 miles up from Philadelphia.
