Assertion: seal | /r/HasProperty | shot
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text: Many seals are shot at and injured in the course of the hunt and studies suggest that a significant number of these animals slip beneath the surface of the water, where they die slowly and are never recovered.
text: During Canada’s annual commercial seal slaughter, as many as 400,000 seals can be shot or bludgeoned.2 Canada halted the slaughter of so-called “whitecoats” in 1987, but harp and gray seals lose their white fur at around two weeks of age, so most seals can still be shot or clubbed to death before they reach their first month of life.3
text: During Canada’s annual commercial seal slaughter, as many as 400,000 seals can be shot or bludgeoned.2 Canada halted the slaughter of so-called “whitecoats” in 1987, but harp and gray seals lose their white fur at around two weeks of age, so most seals can still be shot or clubbed to death before they reach their first month of life.3
text: Nearly half of the seals documented by the team showed “some response to stimuli after being hooked and dragged,” and the majority of seals who were shot were not immediately killed by the first bullet.4