It’s now conventional wisdom that 2017 was one of the very worst years in recent history. It’s also conventional wisdom that the world can’t be entirely terrible as long as it contains cute baby animals. Therefore: behold the new baby gray seal born at the Brookfield Zoo on December 27 to Lily and Boone.
Although gray seals aren’t an endangered species, there are only 25 living in captivity, spread out among ten zoos and aquariums; five of them are in Brookfield. The baby will leave home eventually, Katzen says, for another facility so he can breed and pass on the cuteness.
