Suckling lasted ten minutes
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
The seal pup has finished sucking. It is a round-faced, about one week old “baby”, whose weight at birth may have been around twelve kilos; so today the week-old being weighs around 25 kilos. The baby fur is winter white, with a slight chick yellowish shade for camouflage on the ice. Let us keep an eye on our young friends!
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