In the segment, called the "All Seals Edition!," Colbert said "It seemed like a successful rescue mission" and played a clip of a sea lion clapping. Colbert then mentioned another February incident, where a seal in the Netherlands was found sleeping in a hotel guest room.

The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city

A baby seal recently rescued on Chapel Street in New Haven is on the road to recovery, according to officials at Mystic Aquarium.