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11 hours ago · Seal Sea Lion; Size: 110 to 8,500 lbs. (50 to 3,850 kg) 150 to 2,200 lbs. (70 to 1,000kg) Social Behavior: Mostly solitary except in the breeding season: Lives in larger colonies: Habitat: Polar, subpolar, and temperate waters; the Baikal seal is the only freshwater species: Subpolar, temperate, and equatorial waters: Number of Species
11 hours ago · ZSL has monitored the grey and harbour seal populations in the Greater Thames Estuary since 2013. This year’s count, completed by teaming up with military helicopter pilots from RAF Shawbury, revealed how these two important apex species are doing. “During the 2024 seal survey, we counted 431 harbour seals and 714 grey seals laying out on ...
11 hours ago · The tactile sensory hairs, though nerveless, deliver external information through the highly innervated follicles of both land and aquatic mammals. While the whiskers of land mammals are round in cross-section and possess about 100 to 120 nerves per follicle, seal whiskers are flattened and ten times more innervated.
11 hours ago · 2 days ago. Almost 600 harbour and 3,000 grey seals now call the Thames Estuary home, the latest seal survey by international conservation charity ZSL reveals. ZSL has been monitoring grey and harbour seal populations in the Greater Thames Estuary since 2013, and this year’s count – completed by teaming up with military helicopter pilots ...
11 hours ago · A harbour seal basks in the sun on the banks of the River Stour, near Ramsgate, Kent (Gareth Fuller/PA) Almost 3,600 seals have been counted in the Thames Estuary showing the habitat is still healthy, conservationists said. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) teamed up with military helicopter pilots based at RAF Shawbury this year for its ...
11 hours ago · The car BYD Seal 390kW Excellence AWD Run by Steve Huntingford, editor. Why it's here To see if BYD's flagship electric car is a worthy alternative to the Tesla Model 3 and prestige German saloons ...
11 hours ago · The team's work—"Four decades of Hawaiian monk seal entanglement data reveal the benefits of plastic debris removal"—is available online beginning September 26 and in print on September 27. Plastic waste poses a triple threat to living organisms and the environment: the physical material itself, the chemicals associated with it, and disease-causing microorganisms that hitchhike on it.
