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2-ton elephant seal takes “unexpected journey” into residential space in South Africa earlier than safely returning to sea

Editorial Board Published May 28, 2025
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A big elephant seal took a mistaken flip and was seen lumbering alongside a road in a coastal city in South Africa early Tuesday, shocking residents and provoking a rescue effort to get him again to sea.

The 2-ton seal, which an animal welfare group mentioned was a younger male, was making his method by way of a suburb of Gordon’s Bay close to Cape City.

Locals got here out of homes and recorded movies.

“This is unreal. Hi, bro, how did you get here?” one girl requested.

Members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) watch an elephant seal cornered on a road in Gordon’s Bay, close to Cape City, South Africa, Tuesday, Might 27, 2025. 

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Police and a neighborhood safety firm tried to include the seal by parking patrol automobiles round him. He rested his enormous head on the hood of 1 automotive and half-climbed over one other earlier than slipping free, crossing a street and carrying on up a sidewalk.

The seal ultimately stopped subsequent to a shopping center. Animal welfare officers apprehensive he was too removed from the ocean to search out his method again and would possibly grow to be exhausted and dehydrated. They estimated he weighed round two tons (4,400 kilos). Elephant seals can develop to twice that dimension.

Based on the native Cape of Good Hope SPCA, southern elephant seals are the world’s largest seal species and are generally present in sub-Antarctic areas — not South Africa. However each occasionally, lone elephants seals — normally younger males — make their technique to South Africa’s coast.

A group of marine wildlife specialists and a metropolis veterinarian sedated the seal and guided him into an animal transport trailer to be returned to his pure habitat at a close-by bay.

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA later posted a video on social media of the seal making his method down a seashore and towards the ocean.

“Sea you later,” the video mentioned.

South Africa Lost Elephant Seal Workers members of the Marine Unit with Shark Spotters facilitate the transportation of an elephant seal that discovered its method right into a residential space in Gordon’s Bay, close to Cape City, South Africa, Tuesday, Might 27, 2025. 

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“Wild animals don’t always follow the script, and this seal’s unexpected journey into a residential area created real cause for concern,” Belinda Abraham, spokesperson for the native SPCA, mentioned in an announcement. “With so many moving parts — traffic, onlookers, and a massive marine mammal in distress — it took rapid coordination and clear focus to keep everyone safe.”

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