seal – Roumazeilles.net https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology opinions and others Tue, 19 May 2020 06:56:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Grey seal(s) https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/05/18/grey-seal/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/05/18/grey-seal/#respond Mon, 18 May 2020 17:41:00 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=15520

Grey seal, Phoque gris (Halichoerus grypus)
Scotland, May 2018.

]]> https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/05/18/grey-seal/feed/ 0 Leopard seal https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/04/23/leopard-seal/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/04/23/leopard-seal/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:54:00 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=15346 Tough photographic conditions to catch only glimpses from this leopard seal hunting (It starts under water, sometimes very near the sand beach, but nearly always finishes more than a hundred yards from the coast, and the meal itself only happens after transporting the victim on a large distance from the hunting grounds). But, it was possible to photograph this ultra-efficicent predator partly thanks to its continuous killing sprees: It was not uncommon to observe several kills in the same hour, all along daytime. So, if you take time (several hours of patience each day)… and run on the beach as soon as you observe action…

Leopard seal, Léopard de mer (Hydrurga leptonyx)
Falkland Islands, November 2019.

]]> https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/04/23/leopard-seal/feed/ 0 Sea lion https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/04/22/sea-lion/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/04/22/sea-lion/#respond Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:42:00 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=15334 Strong sexual dimorphism allows easy differentiation of males and females (large and small individuals) of these very active penipedes. You will also note that they hold a thick mane explaining their name (lion manes, eh?).

South American sea lion, Otarie à crinière (Otaria flavescens)
Falkland Islands, November 2019.

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Elephant seal, Éléphant de mer du sud (Mirounga leonina)
Falkland Islands, November 2019.

]]> https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2020/04/21/elephant-seal/feed/ 0 Svalbard: A seal https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2013/12/12/svalbard-a-seal/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2013/12/12/svalbard-a-seal/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:00:37 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=12821
Spitzberg - Svalbard
Map of the Spitzberg archipelago

It was a long time in coming, would say some of the obsevrers here. Here come some photos brought back from a wildlife destination much colder than my usual travels of the past. No big cat in the icy Svalbard archipelago.

It was in June this year (2013) that I traveled to Spitzberg while the last ice just left, in the hope of observing polar bears in their natural habitat. We arrived in Longyearbyen to take a boat cruising to the Western then the North cost of these islands. A few days at sea.

The local fauna is infintely less developed than in Eastern Africa but it is not totally absent (less than in some of our French forests). After the sea birds, we were hoping to meet seals (and other pinnipeds) but we could photograph only this seal who was curious of what we were doing when stopping to go on shore.

Phoque
Phoque

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