SYDNEY: The world’s only captive leopard seal, which washed up in Sydney with a shark bite to his abdomen seven years ago, has been put down at an Australian zoo, officials said yesterday.
Casey stopped eating at the start of the year and his health and condition deteriorated to such an extent that he had to be euthanised. “We are very saddened by the passing of Casey the Leopard seal,” Taronga Zoo in Sydney said.
Leopard seals’ natural habitat is the frigid waters of the Antarctic, but a wounded Casey found himself on shores south of Sydney in 2007. Nursed back to health, he found a home at Taronga Zoo and became one of its most popular residents. AFP
