#ladoga ringed seal

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: GETS You

[silky-selkie]

Magnificent creature

[thalassata]

kroshik and shlissik photo dump

[randumbkatt]

this losar right here have 2 penis on his fur pattern

[alraunedrow]

I have something for you, girl

BEHOLD - LADOGA RINGED SEAL

And especially Kroshyk, who decided to stay with people

i love baikal seals. they always look like they've just gotten out of a sixteen year relationship and are now having an existential crisis. sopping wet cats. weirdly smooth. i love them.

[okaima]

Karelian Words - Seals

Hyleh, t'uleni, vorvani - earless seal (phocidae)

N'orppa - ringed seal (Pusa hispida)

Jiekishyleh - grey seal (Halichoerus grypus)

Kivihyleh - multicoloured seal, Ladoga seal (Pusa hispida ladogensis)

Belkka - seal pup

Räbiläs - seal paw

Maruh, meru- (seal) fat

Meraju - seal blubber, fatty seal meat

Duutišša - hole in the ice through which seals come to breathe

Hangiluuva - seal nest in snow

Laašša, hylehlaašša - stone that is surrounded by water and on which seals can be seen resting

Hukki - special, couple of feet long hook used to lift seal from the net

Hylehverkko - net used for seal hunting

Kabli - bone scraper used for cleaning fur

Keijäs - short spear, metal or bone headed ski pole used for seal hunt

N'orppaoroša - gun used for seal hunting

Belkkalakki, belkkatreuhka - fur cap decorated with sealskin, worn by village elders in northern Viena

Čuikku - parka made from seal fur most often worn by fishers

Hylehšäpäkkähät - legwarmers made from seal fur

Perepreättä - fisher's apron made from seal skin

Šošlakan'kat - traditional fur shoes made from seal fur, worn when the snow turns into watery slush

[noxexistant]

Grrrr

If i mistake a brooklyn newsie for a manhattan newsie or miss any newsies out , please excuse it because there are just SO god dam many of them 😨😨😭😭😪😪

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Birdsies ( Newsies "Bird + Newsies" )

Jack - Wood Pigeon

Davey - Eurasian Jay

Les - Eurasian Jay

Crutchie - Meadow Lark

Race - Rainbow Lorikeet

Albert - Cardinal

Finch - Finch

Tommy Boy - Pionus Parrot

Buttons - Kea Parrot

Elmer - Purple Martin

JoJo - White Bellbird

Splasher - Green-Cheeked Conures

Romeo - Great Bowerbird

Specs - American Woodcock

Blink - Sharp-shinned Hawk

Mush - SaltMarsh Sparrow

Skittery - Starling

Mike - Peregrine Falcon

Ike - Peregrine Falcon

Julian ( i know he isnt a real character BUT HE IS TO ME 😡 ) - Cape Penduline Tit

Henry - Ruby-Throated Hummingbird 

Sniper - American Kestrel

Smalls - Bee Hummingbird

Snitch - Kookaburra

Itey - Goldcrest

Snoddy - Cockatiel

Swifty - Gyrfalcon

Dutchy - Great Spotted Woodpecker

Bumlets - Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

Boots - Russet Sparrow

Snipeshooter - Little Owl

Guttersnipe - Mottled Wood Owl

Katherine - Kiwi

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Brooklyn Scewsies ( Brooklyn Newsies "Scale + Newsies" )

Spot - Leopard Gecko

Hotshot - Chahoua Gecko

York - Tokay Gecko

Mack - Leaf-Tailed Gecko

Splint - Rhoptropus Afer

Lucky - Golden Gecko

Scope - Tarentola Chazaliae

Stray - Frilled-Necked Lizard

Ritz - Tree Crocodile

Pips - Crested Gecko

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Defrogceys ( Delanceys "Frog + Delanceys" )

Oscar - Ranitomeya Frog

Morris - Ranitomeya Frog

( Wiesel - Phantasmal Poison Frog )

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Others

Miss Medda - Tabby Cat

The Boweries - Siamese Cat

Pulitzer - American Shorthair cross Siamese cross Ragdoll Cat

Nunzio - Fire Salamander

Hannah - Red Ruffed Lemur

Bunsen - Proboscis Monkey

Seitz - Ladoga Ringed Seal

Snyder - Black Mamba

Mr.Jacobi - Shih Tzu

Roosevelt - Newfoundland Dog

Bill - Markhor Goat

Darcy - Buff-Tailed Bumblebee

- mystery anon

oh, this is my absolute favourite, and so detailed!!! so many fantastic choices!!!

mike and ike being told apart by a Very slight difference in their feather pattern. les is literally just like a tinier rounder davey. katherine being a fancy little kiwi!!! (although i do also love the idea of her being something super colourful to reflect her wardrobe)

also JULIAN IS REAL TO US!!! special little guy!!! there’s enough boys here that, truly, what is one more? throw him in there. he deserves it.

[thalassata]

I see no difference

Ｊせんせのマネ！

てってないないゴロリ！

Kofu am trying master J's style that lying and hiding paws!

[signedsealeddelivered]

seal of the day: LADOGA RINGED SEAL!!!!! i LOVEEEE these seals so much. they might be my favorite. they’re a gorgeous dark brown/black color and the video of the pup eating fish is simply the best thing ever. these seals are from NW russia. they actually evolved from the last ice age 11,000 years ago!! please love them as much as i do <3 <3 <3

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: King Of Touys

[gopyxp]

LADOGA SEAL WARNING !!

WARNING.

You may see a type of seal that may look very similar to the Baikal seal, or nerpa. While nerpae are VERY delicious and ugly and highly sought after, Ladoga seals, a freshwater subspecies of ringed seal endemic to Lake Ladoga (2nd largest lake in Russia, after Lake Baikal), are HIGHLY poisonous and KINDA cute.

For reference, a Ladoga:

A Baikal:

Baikal seals often have freakishly large eyes. Ladoga seals often have grey markings on their body. But sometimes neither of this is obvious, especially when their fur is wet. To be safe, always make sure you’re in the right lake!

[tunnaa-unnaa]

"only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world"

Says someone who reads wikipedia and doesn't know about Saimaa ringed seal and Ladoga ringed seal.

Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

[thalassata]

botanist

[elzariel]

Ladies, Gents and Whatever You Call Yourself’s of the Tumbler, I’d like you to meet a seal.

Specifically, this one.

Look at it judgingly glaring your way across its shoulder. What the hell do you want?

I want more people to learn about a very endangered species of seal, which only live in a single lake-system and oddly enough, not many people know about. Where does this unknown, speckled beauty live in? Fucking Finland. Yes, in an in-land lake-system, in FINLAND. Yes. The Saimaa Ringed Seal lives in the lake-system of Saimaa and Saimaa only. They got stuck there after one of the ice-ages and have decided to stay. Well a seal can’t really migrate so hey.

But why, you ask, do I bring you this quite normal looking seal? Its endangered as hell. Like, No joke. Finnish Government has for YEARS been trying to protect them and for some reason nobody has thought of telling other people about this species. At all. Its like a weird finnish in-joke. Only finns know. Nobody is told about the seals. Why? Because fuck Finland.

Lets look at the facts: “The Saimaa ringed seal (Finnish: Saimaannorppa) is a subspecies of ringed seal (Pusa hispida). They are among the most endangered seals in the world, having a total population of only about 380 individuals.[2] The only existing population of these seals is found in Lake Saimaa, Finland (hence the name). The population is descended from ringed seals that were separated from the rest when the land rose after the last ice age. This seal, along with the Ladoga seal and the Baikal seal, is one of the few living freshwater seals.“ from Wikipedia What’s that? The most endangered seal species in the world? INTERESTING.

Just, look!

How could you NOT want to protect this thing!?

All I want, is folks to share Finland’s own Big Slappy around, so more folks would know about them. No need to donate, no links to read more online. Seriously. I need more people to know about this hidden finnish gem of a seal, that’s all! I want more people to recognize Finland has this strange blubbery mammal living in one of its big lakes, hiding from the vast majority of the world! Share the slaps people, lets make this remarkably cute and wholesome creature a finnish icon, like it deserves to be!

One more endangered as fuck slappy for the road

[diaspora9ja]

Baikal seals feed on tiny crustaceans like whales do

Baikal seals are followers of bite-sized parts, and this dietary quirk could also be why the seals are thriving.

Present in Russia’s immense Lake Baikal, the Siberian mammals devour tiny marine crustaceans, seemingly utilizing comblike enamel in a way just like how baleen whales feed, a brand new examine finds.

The analysis means that Baikal seals (Pusa sibirica) use a mix of particular enamel, velocity and talent to gobble up dozens of inch-long critters called amphipods on a single dive, scientists report November 16 within the Proceedings of the Nationwide Academy of Sciences. 

Sometimes, seals eat fish and mollusks, although some southern seals, like crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga), are honed eaters of krill, one other kind of small crustacean. For the Baikal seals, there could also be large advantages to looking amphipods. The crustaceans “are very predictable,” says marine biologist Yuuki Watanabe on the Nationwide Institute of Polar Analysis in Tokyo. “They type large aggregations, they usually come to the floor within the nighttime.”

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Exploiting such a reliable meals supply low within the meals chain, Watanabe says, might make Baikal seals extra resilient than different seals to human-driven environmental impacts corresponding to warming temperatures (SN: 5/1/17). 

As many as 115,000 P. sibirica seals populate Lake Baikal, and the species is listed as “least concern” by the Worldwide Union for Conservation of Nature. That is way more ample than seals in related lake habitats — just like the ringed seals of Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia and Lake Saimaa in Finland, which collectively quantity a couple of thousand.

Watanabe has studied Baikal seals since 2003. Again then, he had proof from depth-measuring units mounted on the seals that confirmed that they reliably shifted their diving depths by way of the evening, suggesting the animals is perhaps following a selected meals supply. 

And former information of seals’ abdomen contents had confirmed that the animals have been not less than sometimes consuming amphipods, which make day by day migrations from the depths to the shallows and again once more. So in June 2018, Watanabe returned to Lake Baikal, the world’s largest and oldest freshwater lake, to see if he may collect direct proof that the seals have been feeding on swarms of amphipods. 

Watanabe and colleagues caught eight seals and connected cameras and accelerometers to their backs, recording what the seals have been consuming, how briskly they have been swimming and their diving depths. The workforce discovered that the seals have been quickly snatching up particular person amphipods on their evening dives, as many as 154 in a single descent and catching an amphipod each 2.5 seconds. 

Over a single day, the seals are estimated to make hundreds of catches. All these snacks add up. Primarily based on Watanabe and colleagues’ estimations, Baikal seals could also be getting about 20 % of their day by day calorie necessities simply from amphipods.

When Watanabe examined Baikal seal skulls in museum collections and in contrast the skulls with these of different seals, he seen the cheek enamel of the Baikal animals have folded margins that give the enamel a comblike form with longer, extra developed prongs than some other northern seal species. Baikal seals could also be utilizing these enamel to effectively sieve their plankton prize from the lake, expelling extra water with each gulp, the researchers say. 

Mia Wege, a marine ecologist on the College of Pretoria in South Africa, was shocked such small prey may type a significant a part of the weight loss plan of a seal.

The scale of the freshwater amphipods that Baikal seals eat, she says, “is way smaller than different krill or amphipod species consumed by seals.” That is sensible although as a result of the Siberian seals themselves are among the many smallest seal species, with our bodies that may run on much less gas, Wege says. 

Sooner or later, Watanabe desires to conduct feeding experiments to verify how the seals are utilizing their comblike chompers. He additionally desires to check the animals’ winter weight loss plan, since he thinks amphipods could also be gathering beneath the lake’s winter ice, doubtlessly offering a dependable, dense feast for hungry seals. Figuring out how seasonal ice cowl influences the seals’ meals sources is of accelerating significance, says Watanabe, for the reason that lake’s winter ice is waning on account of local weather change.

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