There have been numerous reports in the past two weeks of seals lying on beaches along the Jersey Shore–even one as far north as Hoboken.

Are they stranded? Victims of the latest marine illness? No, actually they’re in good shape.

So why the unusual behavior?

Lauren Wanko of NJTV News provides the answers in the video above with
Bob Schoelkopf of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, NJ