Автор: Татьяна Литвинова понедельник, 16 марта 2015 г.

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My fairy-tale about the Ladoga seal that once became ringed.
From time immemorial there lived a marvelous seal in the waters of Lake Ladoga. This fabulous animal has always had thick warm fur skin, has always eaten chiefly fry and crustaceans, has always been harmless to people. Undoubtedly that this seal has always had good-natured temper and a cute snout. At that time fur on the back of our seal was dark grey and the upper part of the body was light. And now I am going to tell you how light, elongated rings appeared on the body.
One day the seal swam to the small island hauling out in the ice. At the beginning of March a cream-white pup was born in a snow cave. To feed her pup mother-seal had to catch a lot of smelt, as the daily ration was about 3 kilograms. She wanted her pup to be fed with fresh nutrient rich food. Once the seal was following a school of fish and didn’t realize how she got to the mouth of the Neva River and then to one of the channels of Saint-Petersburg. At this point our seal-traveller got frightened she might have lost her way. She watched smelt floating and didn’t notice she went so far. It’s high time our seal swam home to her pup.
Having understood the situation our seal decided to emerge from the water and look around. The water surface in the channel was covered with dirty film of chemical waste of one of the chemical plants of our city. When aggressive liquid got to the beautiful fur skin of the seal, the animal felt burning pain, got scared and at top speed zoomed off. But chemical injuries which the pet had got remained at her fur skin forever. Her fur skin got covered with light, elongated rings, because some parts of the fur were discolored because of the chemical substance.

Since then the Ladoga seal has been called the Ringed Seal. If the seal hadn’t lost her way and swum far away, she wouldn’t have spoiled her fur skin. The Ladoga ringed seal inhabits the largest lake in Europe - Lake Ladoga. But she is still afraid of her main threats - water pollution and poaching.