Great Yarmouth seal watching! Cute adult male Gray Seal pocking out head
The grey seal is found on both shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. In Latin Halichoerus grypus means "hook-nosed sea pig". It is a large seal of the family Phocidae, which are commonly referred to as "true seals" or "earless seals". It is the only species classified in the genus Halichoerus. Adult female gray seals are about 7.5 feet long and weigh about 550 pounds, while adult males can reach 10 feet long and weigh about 880 pounds. Females have silver-gray or brown fur which may or may not have scattered dark spots, while males have dark gray or brown fur which may or may not have silver-gray spots. They can live 25 to 35 years, and dive depths of 1,560 feet and stay underwater for as long as 30 minutes. They eat 4-6% of there body weight, They can be distingwished from common/harbor seals by there bigger size and much longer snout there nostrils are spaced far apart, while they are close together and kind of v shaped in the common seals. There are aproximatly 120, 000 gray seals in the UK making it home to 40% of the world poppulation.
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