Rare Sea Creature Appears on Seattle Woman's Dock

      In this article a strange creature appears mysteriously on a woman's dock. It has been identified as a ribbon seal. An eyewitness by the name of Michael Cleland reported to OurAmazingPlanet, "I thought, 'that's an interesting-looking creature', I had no idea what it was." According to the article a ribbon seal is an "arctic species that spends most of its life at sea, swimming the frigid waters off Alaska and Russia." Leader of the National Marine Mammal Laboratory's Polar Ecosystems Program, Peter Boveng, say's the sighting was "pretty exciting," and "really unusual." The article confers Boveng saying "the animals spend only a few months per year on sea ice, to molt and give birth, and have almost never been seen so far south." He then says,"So it's a surprise, but knowing the species, it's not a complete surprise to me; they're good travelers."

       This very interesting to me because when I saw this article I was wondering what it was until it was later identified. This was actually the first time I saw a ribbon seal. It's cool how far it swam to get to southern Seattle. It swam about 5197 miles, and that's a long way to swim for a little mammal.

LINK:
http://news.yahoo.com/rare-sea-creature-appears-seattle-womans-dock-152011178.html