The Talking Hoover
The Seal that Talked
The story behind a famously “vocal” seal named Hoover.
A family finds and adopts an orphaned seal pup who later proves to possess an uncanny ability at imitating human speech.
On May 5, 1971, on the shore of Cundy’s Harbor, Maine, a man named Scottie Dunning discovered a small male harbor seal pup without its…