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A trainer petted JD, a northern fur seal, before she was fed yesterday at the New England Aquarium in Boston. The seals are fed 10-12 pounds of fish and squid four times a day. A trainer petted JD, a northern fur seal, before she was fed yesterday at the New England Aquarium in Boston. The seals are fed 10-12 pounds of fish and squid four times a day. (Yoon S. Byun/ Globe Staff)
By David Abel
Globe Staff / June 30, 2009

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The whiskered mammal shimmied onto the fiberglass rock, shook the gray blubber behind her pointy snout, and gazed through a glass wall surrounding her small pool out to the waves of Boston Harbor. Then she let out a massive shriek. (Full article: 521 words)

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