Saturday, February 4, 2012

Seal pups – cute and canine

January 14, 2010 by  
Filed under Wild Things

There’s no room for stay-at-home Gen Xers in an Australian Fur Seal family. Mother seals mate again just a week after giving birth in November-December. Babies are suckled for about 8 months when they are able to join their mother on fishing expeditions to learn to feed themselves. At 11 months after the birth, the [...]