Ginger Seal Photo

[Baitball Blogger]

Ginger Seal Shunned By Peers
Be gone, ugly. Gone gone.

Prepare for your heart to break. This ginger seal is an outcast from its colony. They don't want him. He's ugly and they don't want him. How's the heart?

Born with rare brownish-red fur and wonky blue eyes, he was rescued from a beach on an island off Russia, in the Caspian Sea, after it was abandoned by its mother. The pup's colour is the result of an accumulation of iron in its fur. Oh and he's almost completely blind.

Photographer Anatoly Strakhov found the baby on Tyuleniy Island, away from the other seals on the beach.

"He was hiding and waiting for his mother to come and feed him," Mr Strakhov said. Mr Strakhov caught the seal and took it to a dolphinarium where it is being cared for.

http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/photography/ginger-seal-shunned-by-peers

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. oh poor little baby!

Lucky Mr. Strakhov came along!

Sweet little creature

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I'm wondering if we'll see more oddities because of the nuclear fallout?

[UtahLib]

3. Poor little love

I hope they take good care of him. He looks so sad and lonely and in need of a companion. The picture depicting his ostracism is heartbreaking.