When seals started behaving badly, one woman got to the bottom of the problem

Discovery of rabies outbreak follows an alert issued three years ago by Cape Town marine scientist

04 August 2024 - 00:00

Few people believed Tess Gridley when she said seals were behaving strangely, chasing swimmers, biting beachgoers, convulsing and then dying along the coast from Namibia to Mossel Bay...

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