As Christmas nears, things start to generally get tense for Santa, and for this one especially. A confused-looking seal, dubbed "Santa the seal" by onlookers, ended up stopping traffic after somehow ...

A workshop involving the City of Cape Town, DFFE, and other organisations addressed the rising cases of Cape fur seal bites, now linked to rabies. Rabies, now endemic among the seals, is believed to ...

Along South Africa's coast, an outbreak of rabies in seals was identified. It is the first time the virus has spread among marine mammals, namely in 24 Cape fur seals. According to state veterinarian ...

The Directorate of Veterinary Services in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has confirmed a case of rabies in a Cape fur seal detected at the Walvis Bay Lagoon in the ...

The outbreak may be the first ever documented in marine mammals. By Emily Anthes For the last three years, scientists in South Africa have been trying to unravel a grim marine mystery: What was ...

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Fishing line and nets are having a major impact on Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus), the most common marine mammal observed around the coastline of South Africa and Namibia, where they ...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has expressed concern about increasing incidents of harassment by the public of Cape fur seals along the coast. Image source: Hensley ...

A great white shark off the coast of South Africa Courtesy of flickr user hermanusbackpackers Every year in False Bay, South Africa, great white sharks congregate as Cape fur seal pups are weaned.

Fishing line and nets are having a major impact on Cape fur seals, the most common marine mammal observed around the coastline of South Africa and Namibia, where they are endemic. The first results ...