2024年4月11日 · Gray seals are gregarious animals—they gather in large groups on shore to breed, give birth, and molt. Female gray seals live up to 35 years and males about 25 years. …

2024年10月29日 · Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the …

2013年11月26日 · There was once a bounty on gray seals in New England; hunters in Massachusetts and Maine got $5 if they turned in a nose or skin. From the 1890s until the …

2016年1月27日 · Hungry seals will keep their whiskers ready to search out the tiny clues that lead to food. And I’ll keep flipping over rocks to find other useful lessons from nature, waiting to be …

2008年8月21日 · Grey seals congregate and relax on Billingsgate Shoal, Cape Cod. Fecal samples from live seals and birds revealed that even apparently healthy marine animals such …

2024年4月11日 · The seals’ whiskers act as a sort of dietary timeline, incorporating molecular signatures from various food sources as they grow. Using a technique called stable isotope …

2008年1月23日 · Simply put, if there isn’t enough sea ice, seals can’t haul out on the ice, and polar bears can’t continue to hunt. In each of the first three years of the USGS surveys, the …

Shero and her colleagues are investigating how iron in the mother seals’ diets impacts the pup’s diving capacity– and survival rates. An estimated 90% of Sable Island seal pups die during …

The Return of the Seals GROWING HERDS RAISE QUESTIONS ON SHARKS, FISH, AND POOPT by Lonny Lippsett here was once a bounty on gray seals in New England; hunters in …

These curious, playful seals would often play with fragments of plastic netting or packing straps, catching their necks in the webbing. The plastic harness can constrict the seal's movements, …