Скачать или смотреть The Most Polarizing Animal in the Ocean - New England

Loved & loathed by many, a comeback story either way. We whittled the population down to ~6,000 at one point, but some estimates put today’s numbers around 100,000 seals in New England. And a fun comparison…NE’s seal population is growing about 20x faster than NE’s human population. Conservatively.

This one looks to be a juvenile grey seal, born less than a year ago. Greys are the big ones…males up to 10 feet long, north of 800lbs.

One way to ID a young grey seal vs. a harbor seal is to look at the nose & forehead. It’ll be a flat slope on greys, but concave/browed on harbors.


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