After leaving the Bering Sea in summer to give birth, female Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and their offspring rest on the rocky shores of St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in Alaska, USA. Hundreds of thousands of these eared seals crowd into rookeries like the one shown here by using their hind flippers to maneuver on land. These aquatic carnivorous animals spend the remainder of the year in the open ocean foraging for fish and squid. Their dense coats of fur enable this pinniped species to keep warm in the cold water.
After leaving the Bering Sea in summer to give birth, female Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and their offspring rest on the rocky shores of St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in Alaska, USA. Hundreds of thousands of these eared seals crowd into rookeries like the one shown here by using their hind flippers to maneuver on land. These aquatic carnivorous animals spend the remainder of the year in the open ocean foraging for fish and squid. Their dense coats of fur enable this pinniped species to keep warm in the cold water.
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Location: St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, in the Bering Sea, Alaska, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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