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ON November 14, at about 2 p.m., a seal was observed swimming in the Thames between the landing stage and the entrance to the docks at Tilbury, just opposite the Tilbury Hotel. Eventually it climbed up on to the wooden causeway from the hotel gardens to the river and remained there for some time. It appeared to be a three-quarter grown specimen of the common seal, Phoca vitulina, but with the exception of the hind flippers was practically pure white in colour. Passing boats alarmed it and it dived from the causeway several times, and finally disappeared, swimming strongly down-stream.
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BUCKHURST, A. A Seal in the Thames. Nature 132, 860 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132860d0
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