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In June 1975, Skinny was just a pup when she was found orphaned on a beach in Washington. After receiving immediate care she was deemed non-releasable, and found a temporary home at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington. She came to her permanent home at the Oregon Coast Aquarium just before its grand opening in 1992. We're sharing harbor seal facts as part of her upcoming birthday celebration! This video features info about harbor seal pups--#didyouknow it's pupping season on the

Healthy, strong harbor seal pups sleep hard and play hard-this morning we happened to capture these two between naps! These two patients, one from Scarborough Beach, Maine, and the other from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, are both abandoned harbor seal pups who experienced well-meaning but harmful human interaction, preventing their moms from returning for them. It has taken a few weeks of intensive care at our facility to get them feeling strong enough to act like this, but seeing it makes the many,