Seal Saved from Painful Mouth Injury Imagine living with a sharp hook lodged in your mouth, the fishing line trailing behind you, tugging with every movement. This young seal was doing exactly that. The wound was already infected, each swim and dive a fresh surge of pain. Unlike loop entanglements, hooks don’t always kill outright, but they can slowly starve an animal, weaken its immune system, and alter its behaviour until survival becomes impossible.When we spotted this hooked seal on the beac