One hundred thousand seals lie lazily along the shores of Pelican Point — a sandspit stretching out into the ocean just outside Walvis Bay in Namibia. A jackal prowls along the edge of the seal colony, waiting for an unattended pup, to grab a meal. Charles, the wildlife guide on our boat, tells us about the life of the Cape fur seal, which doesn’t seem very different from that of grey seals in the Baltic Sea.
