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Ten Cool Facts About Harbour Seals

1. Harbour seals are brown, tan or gray in colour. Sometimes they are mottled with all three colours.
They have distinctive V shaped nostrils.

2.They can be up to 20 meters in length and weigh up to 170 kg.

3. Seals stay close to their preferred resting sites but will spend several days at sea and travel up to 50 km in
search of good feeding ground. They will also travel up rivers and inlets to hunt.

4.Harbour seals eat predominantly fish but also eat shrimp, crab, molluscs and squid.

5. Harbour seals can dive up to 450 meters deep and dives may last up to ten minutes long.

6. Mother seals give birth to one pup a year with a gestation period of eleven months. The female raises the
pup on her own.

7. Seals spend a good deal of time out of water during moulting.
This is when they shed their fur and occurs shortly after breeding.

8. Human presence during moulting may interfere with this process.

9. Seals are called pinnipeds.

10. Female seals live up to 35 years and males up to 25 years.