The Monachus-Guardian — Headlines-News-Articles — 2008-2018
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DIDIM’s adopted seal Badem, which was released back into the wild last year, has hit the headlines again – for biting ten people. […]
Despite warnings from the authorities, people showed too much interest in Badem, causing him to bite back to retain his freedom.
The seal that bit 6 persons, one a German, on the Akyaka shore of Muğla’s city of Ula, is being monitored by the Underwater Research Association (SAD). Zafer Kızılkaya, an underwater photographer and member of SAD, who has been watching the seal named Badem, asked the public to leave the seal alone and to remember that after all, it is a wild animal.
Badem, who has made his home in the bay of Gökova, got tired of too much attention and bit and hospitalized 6 persons, one of them a German. Badem, after being treated by the Underwater Research Association in the rehabilitation center in Foça, İzmir, last year, was released in Muğla. Continue reading “The seal Badem under SAD control”