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The grey seal feeds on a wide variety of fish, mostly benthic or demersal species, taken at depths down to 70 m (230 ft) or more. Sand eels (Ammodytes spp) are important in its diet in many localities. Cod and other gadids, flatfish, herring, [25] wrasse [26] and skates [27] are also important locally. However, it is clear that the grey seal ...
Five pinniped species, clockwise from top left: New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri), southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), and grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) Combined range of all pinnipeds
Grey seal could refer to" Grey seal - an aquatic mammal; Grey Seal (song) - an Elton John song; Jimmie Dale - aka "The Grey Seal", a literary character and proto ...
The number of pups born on one of England's best-known seal sites is levelling out, figures suggest. A group that counts grey seal pups on a five-mile (8km) stretch of Norfolk coast around Horsey ...
A wealthy playboy by day, at night he puts on inconspicuous dark clothes, a mask and a black slouch hat and becomes The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, grey paper "seal" (with gum on the back) behind to mark his conquest (so others will not be blamed for his crimes), but never taking anything.
Seacoast Science Center Marine Mammal Rescue saved a female gray seal weanling on Wednesday at Odiorne Point State Park in Rye. The seal was stuck in the rocks of a jetty. Rescuers believe she may ...
Orford Ness in Suffolk is the home to the county's first breeding colony of grey seals. The site, managed by the National Trust, welcomes more and more seals during each winter breeding season.
Many of the folk-tales on selkie folk have been collected from the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland). [15]In Orkney lore, selkie is said to denote various seals of greater size than the grey seal; only these large seals are credited with the ability to shapeshift into humans, and are called "selkie folk".