A seal found dead in the middle of a road in

A seal found dead in the middle of a road in
A seal found dead in the middle of a road in Brittany…

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Nathalie Bot-Jaffray

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Nov. 28, 2024 at 12:45 p.m.

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Macabre and mysterious discovery to say the least this Thursday, November 28, 2024, around 10 a.m., on a road in Côtes-d’Armor.

A seal was found dead, in the middle of a road, more than two kilometers from the nearest beach, in the countryside of the town of Ploubazanecnear Paimpol.

In the middle of the asphalt

Photographed by a motorist, the marine mammal was lying there, right in the middle of the asphalt of departmental road 15 leading to the port of Loguivy-de-la-Mer.


Warned, the police of Paimpol moved to the site to manage traffic, but when they arrived, the animal had already been moved to the side of the road by a third party.

How did he get there? The mystery remains…

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It could have fallen from the trailer of a rendering service that came to collect the animal on one of the town's beaches. But at the town hall of Ploubazlanec, we certify that:

No technical services team recovered any dead animals this morning. We have no reports. We don't really understand what happened… In any case, it's unprecedented in Ploubazlanec!

The town hall of Ploubazlanec
The dead seal was moved to the side of the Loguivy-de-la-Mer road (Côtes-d'Armor). ©Nathalie BOT-JAFFRAY

Transporting a seal is an offense

The hypothesis that the seal arrived alone, there to die on the road, must be ruled out from the outset.

It's impossible. A seal, an amphibian animal, goes to the beach or shore to rest, reproduce or raise its young. Moreover, when we see them, a distance of 100 meters must be respected so as not to disturb them and avoid the risk of bites and disease transmission.

The National Stranding Service

The seal is a protected species. For any non-sworn person, handling or transporting it is a crimepunished by fines of the environmental police which can be salty.

Two hours after this macabre discovery, not a shadow of an explanation. The gendarmerie had to carry out a small neighborhood investigation and services would come and collect the animal.

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