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Letter: Letter: Shep the seal

Published 7 March 1992

From MICHAEL BELL

Juliet Clutton-Brock has well described how land animals have been tamed
(‘How the wild beasts were tamed’, 15 February). But I wonder whether seals
could be trained to herd fish or to protect shellfish against marauders.
Seals seem to have trainable, dog-like personalities. How about it? We could
then farm the sea as well as the land.

Michael Bell Hitchin, Hertfordshire

Issue no. 1811 published 7 March 1992

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