The Cape Fur Seal has had a bad rap recently due to several incidents between them and people on Western Cape beaches. This has led the Two Oceans Aquarium and the City of Cape Town to collaborate on managing the situation. Capetonians, particularly, are familiar with this curious, charismatic, and ubiquitous marine mammal with which…
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