Bar Harbor Times Soup covers Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center seal release

The Bar Harbor Times Soup on Jan. 26, 2012 ran a story on the release of two harbor seals on a beach on Mount Desert by UNE's Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center. Asheley Simpson, senior animal care technician, told the newspaper that both seals came to the center as newborn orphans, one on May 27th and the second on July 7th.

One of the seals, Neil (photo), was fitted with a satellite tracking tag. His movements can be followed through a website called Whalenet.

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