The Milwaukee County Zoo hopes its new harbor seal will be a companion to one seal and a mate to another

Mira, a female harbor seal, has joined the Milwaukee County Zoo's three other harbor seals. She arrived from the Blake Park Zoo in Des Moines on April 6, and after completing the zoo's standard quarantine period, she can now be seen by visitors in the harbor seals' habitat.

Mira was born Aug. 7, 2021, and was brought to Milwaukee with the hope that she will be a companion and playmate for the zoo's other juvenile harbor seal, Leia, as well as eventually mate with Ringo, the zoo's male harbor seal.

As a result of a training program in Des Moines, Mira is comfortable following cues from zookeepers to voluntarily participate in her health care by doing things like lying still and standing on a scale.

Milwaukee's zookeepers said in a statement that Mira started out nervous in her new environment, but that she loves playing with water from a running hose, and since the end of her quarantine, is getting used to being in the outdoor pool with Leia, Ringo and the zoo's other harbor seal, Cossette.

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