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Crabeater seals exhibit scarring either from leopard seal attacks around the flippers or, for males, during the breeding season while fighting for mates around the throat and jaw. [3] Pups are born with a light brown, downy pelage ( lanugo ), until the first molt at weaning.
The leopard seal is known to prey on many other species, especially the crabeater seal. Leopard seals typically target crabeater pups, particularly from November to January. Older crabeater seals commonly bear scars from failed leopard seal attacks; a 1977 study found that 75% of a sample of 85 individual crabeaters had these scars.
Crabeater Seal in Pléneau Bay, Antarctica: Date: 24 January 2011, 09:52: Source: Crabeater Seal in Pléneau Bay, Antarctica: Author: Liam Quinn from Canada: Camera ...
Seal pups, in particular, are culled in numbers greater than eighty thousand per year, largely by clubbing over the head with a pipe. According to the government, ...
The tiny baby sea pup, named Kiwi, is being cared for at the seal centre with a view toward returning him to the wild when he is weaned. He was found abandoned on a beach with no mother nearby.
The first pups of this breeding season are arriving on the Suffolk coast.
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Photo Of Seal Pup Kissing Mom Goes Viral Weddell seals from Erebus Bay in Antarctica have been studied for decades -- and now, two of the creatures are having 15 minutes of Internet fame.