11.   They stand in a snow-covered field like so many baby seals as the five bachelorettes circle like killer whales.

12.   We see whales and baby seals.

13.   Baby seals that are still nursing will remain off limits.

14.   Early this year Norway, wary of the criticism, let hunters kill a few hundred baby seals to test a more humane, efficient killing method.

15.   Harpooning whales and shooting baby seals is often denounced as cruel by opponents, yet Norwegian scientists Tuesday claimed the animals often suffer less than cows led to slaughter.

16.   Harpooning whales and shooting baby seals is more humane than leading cows to slaughter, Norwegian scientists said Tuesday in a report sure to stir controversy.

17.   Hunters traditionally hit snowy white baby seals in the head to avoid damaging their valuable pelts.

18.   In December, Norway quietly lifted a seven-year ban on the commercial killing of baby seals.

19.   It contends that white-coated baby seals continue to be killed, even though this practice was banned a decade ago.

20.   Norway barred the hunt for baby seals mainly because pictures of hunters bludgeoning snowy white pups with spiked clubs provoked intense international protests.