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Showing posts with label seals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seals. Show all posts

12/17/22

MARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER : GIVE THE SICK SEA LIONS A HOLIDAY PRESENT

MARINE MAMMAL CARE ; San Pedro, California  the only year-round marine animal hospital in Los Angeles County, admitting an average 350 animal patients per year, and serving from Malibu to Seal Beach - 70 miles of coastline.  YOU CAN ALSO VISIT TO SEE THE ANIMALS...

"We actively seek out strategic partnerships to expand awareness for the work we do.  One example is our participation as one of the primary care facilities in the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, which consists o 36 other wildlife rehabilitation organizations working under the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response.  In the event of an oil spill, MMCC will stablize, wash and care for affected marine mammals."

This organization also works with ocean conservation organizations such as Atla sea, Oceana, the Sea Change Agency, Cabrillo Aquarium, and other mammal care centers.


4/15/22

ANIMALOGIC PRESENTS A VIDEO ON SEALS

This video is informative and fun and I loved the art too : From Animalogic.  In a lifetime the most dominant Elephant Seal can sire 500 pups. But he sure does have to fight it out to do so. The females choose!?  They can hold their breath for a hundred minutes while the harbor seals can hold it for 30.  


9/10/20

RARE BLUE EYED PINK GINGER ALBINO SEAL MAY BE REJECTED BY COLONY


DAILY MAIL : UGLY DUCKING SEAL - REJECTION -

He's "ginger" and proof of a rare genetics in seals.

EXCERPT:  Biologist Vladimir Burkanov says that so far this fur seal on Tyuleny Island - nicknamed The Ugly Ducking - has not become a total outcast,yet there are signs of it being slightly shunned.

"The pup looks well fed and was very active, so its mother clearly gave it plenty of milk," he said.