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Today's Seal Is: Eclair
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the ribbon seals most defining feature, their stripes, take 4 years to develop!
here is a short timeline of their development 🦭
adorable white coat ribbon seal pups. this baby fur is called lanugo.
after around 1 month pups will start shedding their baby fur to reveal a grey and silver coat
young seals with their grey and silver coat
then, the juvenile seals with start to develop their stripes over the next 3 years. they grow stronger with each moult, females can reach sexual maturity before they have fully developed stripes. this mothers stripes aren’t fully there yet.
once they’re 4 years old a ribbon seals stripes will have fully developed.
male and female are easy to tell apart by their coat colour, the males will have bold black and white stripes
whereas the females have more brown/beige/silver stripes
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Look at this nascent researcher! They look so earnest!
#seal#seals#pinnipeds#ribbon seal#there are many benefits to being a marine biologist#and i trust this marine biologist#little guy
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[ID: A ribbon seal laying on its side on some netting on ice, staring up at the camera. The seal had a tracker with a single antenna sticking directly up in the air on top of its head.] via
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What are these creatures? Arctic ribbon seals. Bizarre and beautiful, yes?
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some snazzy ribbon seal doodles🎀
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Candycore Ribbon Seal Adopt
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Animal of the Day!
Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata)
(Photo by Josh London)
Conservation Status- Least Concern
Habitat- North Pacific Ocean
Size (Weight/Length)- 1.8 m; 130 kg
Diet- Crustaceans; Fish; Cephalopods
Cool Facts- Ribbon seals have a massive amount of dependence on arctic sea ice. They almost never set flipper on the mainland, instead using sea ice to sleep, socialize, and give birth. Ribbon seals have a unique form of movement on the ice, slithering across like a snake and using their clawed flippers to drag themselves along in a graceful freestyle stroke. Males have a massive air sac that helps their calls to travel in the water while searching for a mate. When the environment is less than suited for a pup to be born, a mother ribbon seal can delay her pregnancy for up to four months. Pups are born completely white and are often left alone on an ice flow while their mother hunts. Predators are rare but the pup will play dead and wait for mom to return when faced by an orca circling their icy home.
Rating- 12/10 (The only species in their genus.)
#animal of the day#animals#mammals#seal#saturday#december 23#ribbon seal#biology#science#conservation#the more you know
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i been a seal the entire dam time fools!
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I love ribbon seals cause almost every image of them I find looks like they're disappointed
They're so :(
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Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata)
Family: Seal Family (Phocidae)
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
Found in arctic regions of the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Ribbon Seal can be immediately distinguished from all other seals thanks to the distinctive banded fur of adults (typically black-and-white in males, while females can be black-and-white or brown-and-white), the purpose of which is something of a mystery (it has been suggested to be a form of camouflage, but how such a striking pattern would be any more effective as camouflage than the countershading seen in many other marine mammals is unclear.) Ribbon Seals spend the majority of their lives in the open ocean where they live solitary lives and feed on squids, octopuses and bony fishes such as cods, pollocks and eelpouts. During the later winter and early spring, however, large numbers of Ribbon Seals haul themselves onto masses of sea ice that are disconnected from the mainland to mate, give birth and undergo seasonal molts. During the mating season males will court females by producing grunts and roars using an inflatable sac in their throat (with each male courting and mating with several females), and after mating females are capable of delayed implantation (meaning that they can delay the development of fertilized ova until the ideal conditions to give birth in are met, in this case when sea ice is at its most abundant, to allow an embryo to develop.) After a gestation period of around 10-11 months a female Ribbon Seal will give birth to a single pup which is born with soft, fluffy white fur that (though suitable for providing camouflage and insulation) is not water tight, forcing them to remain on the ice they were born on until their adult coat develops (at which point their mother will guide them into the ocean and teach them how to hunt.)
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Animal Advent Calendar - Day 18
Image Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/41698-Histriophoca-fasciata
#December 18th#Ribbon Seal#seal#seals#pinnipeds#mammal#mammals#zoology#biology#mammalogy#animal#animals#wildlife#marine wildlife#arctic wildlife#marine biology#if anyone figures out why they look like this let me know I'll reward you#I can't offer money or anything but I'll make a little impressed noise and that will be the reward#It'll be like Hmmm!
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Today's Seal Is: How To Fall Asleep In One Such Quick And Easy Step
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baby ribbon seals
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Harbor seal
Grey seal
Ringed seal
Spotted seal
Caspian seal
Baikal seal
Hawaiian monk seal
Mediterranean monk seal
Monk seal
Ribbon seal
Hooded seal
Harp seal
Bearded seal
Crabeater seal
Leopard seal
Ross seal
Weddell seal
Elephant seal
Southern elephant seal
Northern elephant seal
Antarctic fur seal
Guadalupe fur seal
Juan Fernandez fur seal
Galapagos fur seal
New Zealand fur seal
Australian sea lion
New Zealand seal lion
Subantarctic fur seal
Brown fur seal
South American sea lion
California sea lion
Galapagos sea lion
Stellar sea lion
Northern fur seal
South american fur seal
Atlantic walrus
Pacific walrus
#seal#pinniped#sealposting#baikal seal#sea lion#walrus#tusk#fur seal#elephant seal#ribbon seal#harbor seal#a lot of seals
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Crybaby
#seals#seals is damn silly#meme#funny stuff#baikal seal#harp seal#ribbon seal#lol#im tired#too much tags
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seal of the day: ribbon seal !
these seals are so cool because of their patterned coat. the strips of circular white wrapped around the general black fur coat is so friggin cool!!! this striped pattern only develops after 4 years. they live in the arctic parts of the pacific ocean. they r also ice seals! ribbon seal pups look like harp seal pups so they were hunted for their fur, however since ribbon seals are more individual creatures and don’t form herds, they were harder to capture. (yippee!!!) these seals are predicted to survive global warming, isn’t that cool? what do u think of the ribbon seal? :3
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