A zookeeper ponders how to help a baby seal that fell into the moat surrounding his enclosure at the Milwaukee County Zoo. Screenshot: Storyful

MILWAUKEE, July 12 (UPI) -- A visitor to Wisconsin's Milwaukee County Zoo captured video of zookeepers lifting a baby harbor seal that fell into the moat surrounding its enclosure.

The video, posted to YouTube by Stacy Lukasavitz Steele, shows the baby seal appearing to panic as it flops around in the moat surrounding the seal habitat.


Zookeepers are able to lift the slippery seal, weighing about 70 pounds, back up to join its mother.

"Tonight we were at the zoo and witnessed a rescue!" Steele wrote on Facebook. "New baby harbor seal was allegedly knocked out of the exhibit by its mom and into that space between it and the walkway, so two zookeepers had to lift it back up. The poor little dude sounded like he was yelling 'Help!' It has a happy ending, though."