Animal rescue crews in Australia helped capture a New Zealand fur seal stranded on a local farm. Farm workers said the seal likely wandered onto the farm from a nearby river.
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"I thought that's a strange looking cow," she told Bega District News. "He came out of the creek which makes sense."
Shepherd eventually contacted New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service who sent rangers and collaborated with Bega Valley Shire Council Rangers to relocate the seal to the Bega River.
Andrew Irvine, Sydney's Taronga Zoo unit supervisor of marine mammals, told the BBC seals occasionally become disoriented and wander onto dry land.
"It's always an unusual event but given that the population is quite good and stable at the moment...It's not unheard of," he said. "We've been fortunate to see good increases in New Zealand fur seal populations throughout Australia."
