Happy Monday! This is a good time to remind you that grey seal pups display high individual variability in their movement patterns during their first year at sea - Look where these guys have been. The things they must have seen! #PinnipedFacts 🦭
As if things weren’t bad, some politicians in the US are proposing culling of seals and sea lions to protect salmon fisheries. This is NOT a scientific evidence-based solution. Join and raise your voice against this nonsense #PinnipedFacts
The elephant seals from #AnillosSEALS keep moving and dispersing. Looks like Mike Jordan is going to be the first one to make it to the open ocean! 🦭🦑🌍 #PinnipedFacts
Our little grey seal pup, Maggot, keeps going all over the SW of England! It’s amazing how a seal that’s only a few months old can move like this #PinnipedFacts 🦭 More rehabilitated tagged seals will be released soon!
Grey seals have a weird breeding season across the UK, starting in the SW around August/September and then slightly later into Autumn / Winter as you move clockwise, with colonies in east England pupping in December #PinnipedFacts
Sea lions 🦭 are voracious predators and have been recorded killing birds, sea turtles, pups of other species of pinnipeds and many other species #PinnipedFacts
Taking body measurements of an anaesthetised crabeater seal in Antarctica
Hi Bluesky! I’m Luis Huckstadt, a Senior Lecturer at @exetercec.bsky.social working on ecology and physiology of 🦭and how they are impacted by #climatechange . Currently, I’m studying seals in Antarctica, Chile, and the UK. Follow me for everything seal/sea lion related #PinnipedFacts 🦭🐋🐧
What are our elephant seals up to? Well, two of them enjoy the Pacific. Three of them are very happy in the fjords and channels of Tierra del Fuego and the last one decided he had enough of coastal waters and recently ventured into the Atlantic #PinnipedFacts #AnimalTracking 🦭 🌍🧪
Elephant seals 🦭 have a lot of blood with a lot of red blood cells (RBC)🩸 with lots of haemoglobin to store lots of oxygen. That way they can dive for 20 min (max > 2 hr!). That whitish layer between plasma and RBC are white blood cells and platelets #AnilloSEALS #PinnipedFacts 🧪#MarMam
The views of the Andes are always just majestic. On my way to Chilean Tierra del Fuego to work with elephant seals #PinnipedFacts @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦭🌎🧪🦑
If you are in the area, come see my friend @RachelHolser talk about her amazing research on northern elephant seals! 🦭 #PinnipedFacts #ExeterMarine 🌏🦑🦊🧪
Antarctic krill 🦐 is known to be an important prey for crabeater seals and leopard seals, but new evidence indicates that Weddell and Southern elephant 🦭 also enjoy this small euphausiid for dinner #PinnipedFacts #ExeterCEC 🧪🦑🌏🦊
Galápagos sea lions basking on a beach while humans approach them
Perhaps due to the lack of land predators, Galapagos sea lions tend to not be shy. Interactions with humans are increasing, and they are being harassed more frequently by tourists and dogs. Keep a safe distance #PinnipedFacts 🦑🌏🧪#ExeterCEC
