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Sunday 20 September 2015

Seal fashions and ghost seals

A mother seal delicately wraps some seaweed around her nose.

Out on Bardsey Island the seals are wearing seaweed and some have adopted stunning eyebrow enhancement this season! 


Somewhat boho application of seaweed here by this large bull seal
Beuatiful big eyebrows are the look for this young mother (pup's behind behind on the right)

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The 'ghost seals' are small seals - intermediate in size between pups and adults - with a pale somewhat reddish pelage.

They were pups last year. Their pale fur and dark-ringed eyes give them a somewhat ghost-like appearance, but really they are the Bardsey seals big success story. They have survived the first really tough year of life and returned to the seal rockery. They are the next generation.



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