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Seals’ rear flippers are almost all webbed toes, powerfully hinged at the ankle, enabling the animals to scamper across broken ground with astonishing speed. But Ream cornered this one against a rock wall. For a moment, man and seal advanced and retreated like fencers. Finally, the zoologist lunged and dropped the noose, then dragged the animal back to the wooden board. Thomason shut the hinged trap over the seal’s head.
With Zeppelin astride the animal’s back, Thomason shaved about $1,800 worth of tracking equipment from her fur and handed it to Ream. They weighed and measured her, splayed out her flippers, examined the muscle and fur where the tracking tag had been placed. She was four feet long. At 84 pounds, she had neither gained nor lost weight in the six weeks since Ream and his co-workers first captured her.
When they finished and flipped open the trap, the animal whirled, growling, facing down the humans for a few seconds before bolting for the rocks-and her pup. “She had some spunk,” Ream said, laughing. “A little bit of attitude.” Remembering his misgivings, she wonders what knowledge of the ocean and its food died with those old, wise females. “There’s more to know than we know,” she says. “There’s more than we understand right now.”
SOME 525 PEOPLE live in the village of St. Paul, spread among 170 houses and apartment buildings on two facing hills, with the harbor, corporate offices and warehouses, and a school in between. Bikes lean unlocked against buildings and homes, and children play in shirt-sleeves outside the school. People greet strangers on foot with a cheerful wave.
Arctic foxes scramble up a dirt lane past a battered old house, a new Honda four-wheel all-terrain vehicle parked outside, electric guitar strains emerging from a second-floor window. There may be no telephone in the room at the King Eider Hotel, but you can catch CNN off the village’s wireless Internet.