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robot-pup:

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.

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after around 1 month pups will start shedding their baby fur to reveal a grey and silver coat

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young seals with their grey and silver coat

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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.

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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

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whereas the females have more brown/beige/silver stripes

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knightofleo:

wtfneptune:

marlynnofmany:

luxshine:

nunyabizni:

ampervadasz:

Unmute !

The Aussies have a thing or two to learn it would seem.

I’ve never seen an Ostrich look SO offended in my life.

Let’s hear it for unorthodox animal handling skills! 

The ostrich is either so offended that it just can’t stand it, or it’s so confused that this other ostrich thing has gone and shapeshifted on it.

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tirlaeyn:

since I’m the bird guy, here’s a bird poll.

Consider not your fav individual species of bird, but the general type of bird you like best. Got it?

Which is it?

waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans, etc)

galliformes (chickens, quail, turkeys, etc)

songbirds (finches, sparrows, thrushes, etc)

hummingbirds

raptors (eagles, hawks, falcons etc)

ratites (ostriches, emus, cassowaries, etc)

shorebirds (plovers, sandpipers, rails, etc)

seabirds (gulls, skuas, albatrosses, etc)

penguins

parrots

See Results

and yes I left corvids off on purpose, bc I figured they would win by a long margin. I want to see what other kinds of birds people like! Also these groupings aren’t exactly scientific, so like, don’t yell at me.