Seals

05/02/2023

Only male seals during the mating season are aggressive towards each other, but basically these creatures are sympathetic and caring towards their relatives.

05/02/2023

The largest known troop of mammals in the world is the population of northern fur seals, which lives on two islands in the subarctic zone of the Pacific Ocean and has about 1.5 million individuals.

04/02/2023

Seals are able to distinguish smells at a distance of several hundred meters, and in some cases up to half a kilometer. Seals have the ability to echolocate, even if it is not as well developed in them as in dolphins.

04/02/2023

The depth of seal sleep can reach 7 meters. Sleeping animals lie motionless at the bottom of the sea, on their stomachs or on their sides, with their eyes and nostrils closed. Once, scientists observed a seal sleeping on the surface of the water with its head submerged.

03/02/2023

Seals have more blood than other animals on earth. This way, the blood cells hold more oxygen so that seals can stay underwater longer. A seal can stay underwater for 2 hours, which is a record in the animal world. When diving, seals reduce their heart rate by 50-80%.

02/02/2023

02/02/2023

They inhabit the coastal waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as well as the Baltic and North Seas. Harbor seals are brown, rufous or gray in color and have distinctive V-shaped nostrils. Adult individuals reach 1.85 m in length and 135 kg of weight. Females live up to 30-35 years, and males up to 20-25 years.

01/02/2023

Seals feed on fish, cephalopods (small octopuses, cuttlefish) and crustaceans (krill, crustaceans); sea leopards attack penguins and other seals.

31/01/2023

Peaceful nature does not prevent seals from being fierce predators, and their main source of food is various marine life: fish, mollusks, crayfish, crabs. Large species can also prey on penguins. The seals themselves are included in the diet of larger marine predators: sharks, killer whales, polar bears.