Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:35:40 +0200https://english.radio.cz/daughter-seal-8077129© 2026 Radio Prague International It's amazing how a single animal can rivet the public's attention as we all saw last weekend with the christening of a small seal named Abeba at the Prague Zoo. This creature's claim to fame: that she was the pup of the famous Gaston, the adult male who escaped from the zoo last year when the Vltava river broke its banks and Prague saw floods it hadn't experienced for five hundred years. During those dramatic August days we surveyed Gaston's run for freedom, making it all the way to Dresden before finally being recovered by zoo keepers to be returned to Prague. Viewers thought - all's well that ends well... encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/daughter-seal-8077129 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9