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Marc Néron recounts the moment a seal pup approached him and his dog, Mia on a beach in Quebec’s Oka National Park.
Quebec wildlife experts are hoping to help a seal pup get back home after it appeared on a popular beach near Montreal.
A heartwarming scene unfolded on the North Coast as the last three Pacific harbor seal pups of the season were released back into the wild.The Northcoast Marin ...
Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...
A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but ...
A harbor seal pup is recovering after being found alone and starving on a beach in Des Moines, Washington.The pup was discovered earlier this week, prompting immediate action from a local ...
He thought something was there. Luhn: That something might’ve been a ringed seal. These animals dig layers under snow drifts to protect their fuzzy white pups from predators. The mother seal leaves ...
Harp seal pups nurse on high-fat milk for about 12 days, gaining five pounds per day, and wean when they reach 80 pounds, according to NOAA Fisheries. After weaning, their mother leaves them on drift ...
Refreezing the melting sea ice in the Arctic is more complicated than you would think. The U.K. is funding geoengineering experiments like this one to curb the effects of climate change.
According to Marine Mammals of Maine, harp seals are born in the Arctic in February and March on pack ice and are nursed on high-fat milk for 12 days, so a pup from this species in our region is rare.
Seal mothers are exemplary parents. They are fiercely protective of their pups and have strong maternal instincts. From their pups’ birth, seal mothers are attentive, nurturing them with rich milk and ...
Because Arctic snow has been melting sooner and sooner, seal caves often collapse and make the pups easy prey for polar bears, foxes, and ravens. And if they don't get eaten, exposed pups can ...