Seal pups stay with their mothers for the first ... the pup gains an enormous layer of blubber, effectively blowing up like a balloon. In the process, the female will have lost about 40 per ...

A seal pup that was found stranded has died, and now rescuers have a cause of death, Connecticut officials said. The gray ...

Headless bodies of deceased seal pups have been found along beaches ... part of the body to access with the thinner layer of blubber, but the brain also has the highest nutritional value.' ...

Weaning is a major transition in elephant seal life. Pups go from gaining weight fast — 200 pounds or more of blubber in a month — to metabolizing that blubber to sustain them for eight to 12 ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, an estimated 90 per cent of grey seal pups on Sable Island die ... which either had to be surgically implanted below the blubber or monitored by someone standing nearby ...

Seal pups are born with thick ... Young seals remain on land to molt and grow their waterproof fur. They live off their blubber reserves for about 1-4 weeks before making their way to the ocean ...