Seahorse making good recovery after gull attack and crash landing

A seahorse that nearly died after a seagull dropped it in a garden several miles from the coast has been nursed back to health. Karen Warr was on her way to the shops when she glanced down and saw the five inch long creature on her lawn.

Spotting it was still breathing, she carefully scooped it up with a fish slice and placed it in a bowl of tepid water. Mrs Warr, 46, from Weymouth, Dorset, contacted her local Sea Life Centre and staff collected the endangered creature and took it back with them.



The long-snouted seahorse, which has been named Pegasus, has now made a full recovery. It is believed the creature was taken from the sea at Weymouth by a seagull which dropped it three miles away over Mrs Warr's house.

It is not known how long Pegasus had been out of water for but Mrs Warr put her pet cat out three hours before she found it and "it couldn't have been there then otherwise he would have eaten it." The green and silver creature is an adult female and has been put in a dark quarantine tank at the Sea Life Centre to aid its recovery.



Display supervisor Claire Little said they transferred the seahorse into salivated salinated, (thanks Ratz!), water gradually to avoid shocking it. She said: "They can go into shock if they are not treated carefully. We brought it back to the park to be assessed in our biological services unit for several hours.

"She seems fine now but we will continue to monitor her while she is in quarantine for the next 28 days."