A Harbor Pup Seal Grows Up

• Harbor seal families lie in the warm sun
• Sidney is a seal pup
• her mother is hungry, so she dives in the water to go fishing
• the mother hunts fish for 4 days
• people come to rescue the pup
• Peter is a scientist who cares for rescued seal pups
• the scientists feed milk to the hungry pup
• Sidney is 3 weeks old, she is small for her age
• a child's ply pool becomes the pups new home
• the scientists try for many days to get the pup to eat fish, then she eats it
• when the pup is 5 weeks old, she has a thick layer of fat and is ready to be on her own
• Sidney is returned to her ocean home