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  2. Grey seal - Wikipedia

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    Grey seal pups are precocial, with mothers returning to the sea to forage once pups are weaned. Pups also undergo a post-weaning fast before leaving the land and learning to swim. [37] Within a month or so they shed the pup fur, grow dense waterproof adult fur, and leave for the sea to learn to fish for themselves.

  3. Seal mothers 'may be moving to less crowded sites'

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    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 ...

  4. Rising sea and storms 'almost disastrous' for seals - AOL

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    An independent animal hospital has said winter storms and rising sea levels "can be almost disastrous" for grey seal pups. South Essex Wildlife Hospital, based at Orsett, said it helped rescue 100 ...

  5. First seal pups of season born at nature reserve - AOL

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    The first grey seal pups of the breeding season have been born at a colony in Suffolk. Earlier this year, the National Trust said Orford Ness had become home to the county's first breeding colony ...

  6. Seal colony thriving 'thanks to secluded site'

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    Matt Wilson believes Orford Ness has a range of benefits for the grey seal colony [Jo Black/BBC] ... First seal pups of season born at nature reserve. Seal colony moves in to ex-military test site.

  7. Whitecoat - Wikipedia

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    Pups grow rapidly, at the end of nursing, most pups weigh 36 kg (80 lbs) or more. The mothers then leave their fully fed pups and join the bulls to mate. At this age of about 12 days, pups first become "greycoats", [2] as grey juvenile coloring grows under their white fur, then "ragged-jackets" when white fur begins to fall out in patches.

  8. Rare black seal pups born at nature reserve - AOL

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    The grey seal pups at Donna Nook are normally born white and shed their fur at about two to three weeks to expose a grey coat underneath. However, about one in 400 grey seals reveal a velvety ...

  9. Ragged-jacket - Wikipedia

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    A ragged-jacket (or, occasionally, "raggedy-jacket") is the name given to a harp or grey seal pup when it is undergoing its first moult, and the intermediate stage between a "whitecoat" and a "beater". [1] [2] The moulting begins when the pup is at an age of about 12–14 days, at which time they cease nursing. At this young age, the pups are ...

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