Five adult gray seals were found shot to death on Cape Cod beaches last month in what appears to be the most serious attack on marine mammals in at least three decades in New England.
The seals, all with gunshot wounds to the head, were found over a two-week period on beaches from Dennis to Chatham by the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s marine mammal rescue and research team. Investigators got their first clues to the gruesome deaths when they examined what they thought were two stranded seals and discovered bullet holes in their skulls.
They have subsequently identified three other seals killed in the same manner.
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