Doll Head Swallowed: Czech Zoo Mourns Last Seal
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In a Czech animal park, a mane seal has died after swallowing the head of a doll. This was the result of the autopsy, the zoo in Liberec reported on Tuesday. Animal nurses had found the 17-year-old male "Hugo" lifeless in his enclosure on Saturday. The toy doll had been fished from the pool two days ago, the staff of the zoo reported. Nothing had indicated that the seal "Hugo" swallowed parts of the object. Thus the animal had eaten normally. In…
The 17-year-old male Hugo was found lifeless in the enclosure. In the zoo Liberec it is not the first fatal incident of this species.
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nachrichten.atThe veterinarians found the toy part during an autopsy. The 17-year-old male Hugo was found lifeless in the Liberec Zoo on Saturday.
An autopsy has confirmed that the death of Hugo, a valuable male sea lion at the Liberec Zoo, was most likely caused by a child's toy. During the autopsy, veterinarians found the doll's head stuck between the animal's stomach and small intestine. They found no other possible causes of the sea lion's death.
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