This pup raises its flipper into the air. NORFOLK, UK: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent three-days with the UK?s largest and cutest colony of seals
This pup raises its flipper into the air. NORFOLK, UK: THIS BRITISH photographer has spent three-days with the UK?s largest and cutest colony of seals. In one image, a 220-pound grey seal pup rolled onto its back with its flippers held out like an aeroplane as it unknowingly performed for the camera. In another, a sleepy seal lay on its side as the warmth of fading sun made for the perfect napping conditions. Photographer, Laura Galbraith (49), from Cambridge, UK, was travelling along the Norfolk coastline when she photographed these adorable seals. Home to both grey seals and harbour seals, Norfolk has the largest seal colony in the UK with 3,000 new pups born into the colony every year. Norfolk?s seal colony stretches for miles along the coastline around Blakeney Point and Horsey Gap. These cute creatures are attracted to the large expanse of flat sand and the shallow waters which make for the perfect conditions to birth new pups. Female seals only birth one pup a year due to the energy it requires to raise them. A newborn pup will gain over four pounds a day when it begins feeding from its mother. This stage of development lasts for around three weeks. / Laura Galbraith
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Photo credit: © Media Drum World / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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