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Seal Enclosure - scanned photo 1990's

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this was one of my favourite exhibits as a child visiting Whipsnade, can see now it is not particularly desirable being very shallow. Guidebook from the time says they held both grey and harbor seals.
For otters, especially the way it’s grown up vegetation wise I think it’s brilliant. Obviously for anything bigger not so much.

The Seals could submerge, I remember them swimming round under the water but obviously it wasn’t the best space looking back
 
@Tim May Snoopy was the female, Sammy the male. I did part of my work experience with them when I was 16 in 1989. Snoopy retired to the Greek Seal Sanctuary in Cornwall.
 

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