1.   On the ice floes of Newfoundland, Greenpeace volunteers placed their bodies between the gaffs of the seal hunters and the helpless seal pups.

2.   A man grabs a child by the hair and hauls him into the boat like a drowned seal pup.

3.   But nothing has ever compared with the day that her father, a small-town harbor master, brings home a sickly seal pup.

4.   Did you know that seal pups have a million hairs on every square inch of their bodies?

5.   He watched seal pups playing among the bergs and heard the thunderous crack of a chunk of ice several stories tall breaking off and falling into the sea.

6.   Hundreds of drowned seal pups have washed up on the shores of Newfoundland after their mothers gave birth in open water, failing to find ice.

7.   If you should ever come upon a seal pup on the beach, give it a wide berth.

8.   One Long Island woman found a seal pup on a beach and assumed that since it was on dry land it was stranded.

9.   That means three weeks less each year for the polar bears to hunt and gorge on seal pups.

10.   The Whitney family of Rockport, Maine, adopts an orphaned seal pup who charms them, and the tourists, with his tricks and his loyalty.