Orphaned baby seal finds love at Last

• NeverSayGoodBye

  21 Nov 12, 22:04

  

  AN orphaned baby seal that was left abandoned and alone after her mother died has found a loving family at last.

  Despite being raised by keepers, the seal pup – called Lunita – has been welcomed to swim with the rest of her colony.
  
  Baby Lunita's mother, Enya, died shortly after she was born at Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna and it was uncertain whether the baby Seal would survive after she had to be raised by humans.

  But now head carer Thomas Voracek says that the baby is out of danger and weighs close to 30 kg.

  "She is also old enough to take a place with the other seals," he added.
  
  Mr Voracek said he was confident she was now old enough to remain with her relatives permanently.
   
  "She was not completely isolated when being bottle fed other female seals were allowed in to see her," he said.
  
  Now, the keeper said, the little seal is feeding happily on fish and getting through an incredible 3 kg of herring a day.
  
  During feeding time the youngster has little chance to compete on getting a fish from the water with her relatives and as a result gets a portion fed to her separately.
  

  Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: "We wanted her to get used to others of her kind, and it paid off. She was completely comfortable with the rest of the group and accepted," he said.

  

  Little Lunita with her newly found family