Baby seal has developed a fish phobia

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Meet Heidi, the four-week-old seal cub ... who is scared of fish.

Fish and in particular herring should be the main part of a common grey seal's diet but little Heidi seems to have developed a phobia of fish. 

She was taken in by a sea life sanctuary weighing just 13kg after being abandoned by her mother on a beach in Norfolk a couple of weeks ago.

But staff there say she refuses to eat her natural diet of raw herring and even runs away from the fish when she sees them.
The staff - who say they have never seen anything like it - have now resorted to liquidising the fish into a smoothie, which she will sip.

Over the next month the Sea Life Sanctuary in Hunstanton, will they to coax the fussy eater into eating the fish, and get her to her target weight of 25kg.

They will also put her in their main pool to learn how to socialise with the other seals so that she can be released back into the wild.

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