What Beheaded Young Seals in Mid-April 2020 On Beaches in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador? With

A couple of weeks ago in my April 15th Earthfiles YouTube broadcast, I talked about this sad headline from the Canadian Broadcasting Company, dated April 12, 2020: “Hundreds of dead seals washing ashore in Nova Scotia.” Twenty-seven young pups, all beheaded or heads inexplicably damaged or hide pealed off were counted in a stretch of beach 1 kilometer long from Sambro Creek to Fawson Cove near West Pennant, Nova Scotia. Halifax is 18 miles northeast of those beaches. That is where 21-year-old Geoffrey Howard lives with his parents and attends Dalhousie University. But the family frequently goes to their beach house in West Pennant.