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Video from web camera: Fleur from LK forum

Translation: Liis

The seal pups grow fast, the seal mum’s milk has 60% fat and compared to cow milk, three times the amount of proteins. A seal pup increases its weight by up to a couple of kilos per day when the birth colony is sparsely populated, as in our camera view. In a dense population there is more noise and disturbance and the increase in weight is a little smaller. The sucking lasted ten minutes.

 

Web camera image: Kitty from LK forum

The image above shows the suckling female seal. Her weight is somewhere around 180 kilos and she has two teats. The fur is speckled. Within a few days we may see the larger and darker-coloured males. Grey seals mate a couple of weeks after the birth of the pups.

 

Web camera image: Alice from LK forum