Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy thanksgiving! I have lots to be thankful for, having such wonderful family and friends, and having the opportunity to work on my own research on an Isle full of baby seals. How can you not be grateful when baby seals are playing with sticks all around you?

One days difference

The pup pictures from yesterday? This is the same pup. Loosing fluff, and coming into her spots. A huge difference in just a day...within a day or two she should be fully molted.

Almost finished cookin'

Born on November 4th, this is where she has gotten to today. Pretty impressive for 2 1/2 weeks

Metamorphosis

To go from this:

To this:

One must shed tons of white fluffy hair in massive piles and ackward stages.

Currently the pups I have been following from birth are going through this. Piles of pup fur are everywhere, and hairballs fly everywhere on a windy day.

Playing

Kids come up with all sorts of things to play with, doesn't have to be fancy store bought toys. Buying cats toys, ours seem to enjoy the box more. The same seems true for seal pups; they play with anything they can get ahold of. This weaner is playing with a clump of grass.

Weaners!

One of the students at st andrews is examining the social interactions of weaned seal pups. Today was spend catching and coralling said weaners. This is one of our study pups, she is very pretty!

And another blog...

If you would like to read more about Isle of May, our lovely photo identification expert keeps up a blog year round. This entry is about my research :)

http://www.isleofmaygreyseals.co.uk/?p=461