Seals are so cute.   They're just like otters except they're bigger and they bark like puppies.   They're so cute, you just want to hug them.   That is highly inadvisable as one woman learned.   She wasn't trying to hug one.   She just wanted to help one she thought was in distress.

The Mubai Mirror reports Elsie van Tonder, a South African woman, will need surgery because a young female seal bit her nose off when she tried to help it back into the sea.   Her nose was found but could not be reattached.   Herman Oosthuizen, a marine biologist with the Department of Environmental Affairs cautioned, "It's a predator, it's got vicious teeth and if it bites you in the wrong place, it could kill you."

It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!