Photograph of a seal sitting on the kayak launch at 72nd Street and Riverside Park by Eric Carvin/AP Earlier this week, iReport had a video of a really cute harbor seal spotted off Red Hook [Via Brownstoner] - the video is below (it's an auto-play and it's seriously awww-worthy)! Besides being ridiculously cute, the video brings back a flood of memories of various seal sighting in the city. There was Gowana, the harp seal......

To be a young harbor seal taking some time from swimming to sun! A young seal was seen hanging out at the 79th Street Boast Basin yesterday morning the Parks Department. Sergeant Rakeem Taylor told City Room, "He was moving around pretty fine, yawning and sunning himself," and estimated the seal to be "3 to 4 feet long and about 90 pounds." Taylor said that the seal's appearance means the Hudson is clean enough for......

In Murmansk, the northern Russian town, an aquarium was looking for humans to become foster parents of a baby harp seal. The cub was rejected his family because he was born grey, not white. Aw! The Agence France-Press reported that "applicants would need a bathtub, salt water for the cub to splash around in and 100 grammes (3.5 ounces) of fish per day, for the moment," until the seal was fully grown (harp seals......