#arctocephalus

[snototter]

A Brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) in Australia

by Cat Rayner

#brown fur seal #Arctocephalus pusillus #arctocephalus #Otariidae #pinnipedia #carnivora #mammalia #chordata #wildlife: australia #seals

[fyanimaldiversity]

Begging you for some pinnipeds any pinnipeds please

Piebald Northern fur seal

Atypical colored Antarctic fur seal! With the orange, white, and grey they look calico.

Leucistic Antarctic fur seal

Interesting gang of Antarctic fur seal, one is leucistic and one almost looks brindle?

Leucistic southern elephant seal

Northern fur seal labeled as albino and partial albino (leucistic?) by some sources. NOAA says albino and they are experts.

Albino harbor seal

Albino ringed seal

Melanistic grey seal

#color mutation #albino #albanisim #melanistic #melanism #piebald #leucism #leucistic #oddball #northern fur seal #Callorhinus ursinus #antarctic fur seal #Arctocephalus gazella #harbor seal #Phoca vitulina #ringed seal #Pusa hispida #southern elephant seal #Mirounga leonina #grey seal #Halichoerus grypus #ask

[wikipediapictures]

Brown fur seal

#Arctocephalus pusillus #brown fur seal #cape fur seal #south african fur sea #australian fur seal #wikipedia #wikipedia pictures #animals #baby seal #marine life #marine animals #marine biology #sea life #sea animals

[rwking01stuff-blog]

Antarctica Dream Adventure 05 - Birds and Bergs en route to South Georgia Island

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#(Arctocephalus pusillus) #(Daption capense) #(Fulmarus glacialoides) #(Macronectes giganteus) #(Megaptera novaeangliae) #(Pachyptila desolata) #(Phoebetria palpebrata) #(Pterodroma macroptera) #(Thalassarche chrysostoma) #(Thalassarche melnophris) #Antarctic Prion #Antarctica Dream Adventure #Bird Mode #birds #Black-browed Albatross #Cape Petrel #Fur Seals #Giant Petrel #Great-winged Petrel #Grey-heded Albatross #Humpback Whale #Icebergs #Light-mantled Albatross #marine mammals #South Atlantic Ocean #South Georgia Island #South Georgia Island and Antarctica Expedition #Southern Fulmar #Viking Octantis

[sealsdaily]

What would you consider to be the closest thing to a seal that *isn't* a seal?

Bears.

The fur seal subfamily name is literally Arctocephalus! (bear-headed)

#not daily #mod ribbon #asks #brown fur seal #otariidae

[witchstone]

Subantarctic Fur Seal  Arctocephalus tropicalis Marion Island, South Africa -46.884659, 37.868526 by mario_mairal

#seals #subantarctic fur seal #fur seal #animals #marion island #south africa #m #inaturalist

[xcarchariasx]

Australian Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) out at Seal Rocks, Phillip Island~🦭

#australian fur seal #fur seal #seals #phillip island #video #🦈.post #(tag for my own content)

[mantisgodsdomain]

Milk and Green Apple for Penelope

(for this ask game)

Since we haven't introduced Penelope yet, as is standard, we'll do a quick write-up here. Penelope is a Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis). She's an accountant who works at a bank located in a tundra which primarily caters towards terrestrial animals. Though she doesn't particularly like her job, and initially picked this posting because it was the best option available to her during her CPA experience program, she sort of... got stuck.

Finding work is difficult. She was lucky enough to get rehired by the same branch after finishing her work experience program, but she can't really find anywhere else willing to hire her right now, and her branch is hesitant to let her go, considering that she's one of the most competent people available to her department. She can't really quit, but she can't really move forward, either, so she's sort of... stuck in limbo.

She's well-paid enough that she can live relatively comfortably, but she was at least partially a diversity hire to begin with, and the place she lives in now just plain isn't made for her. She's an aquatic species in a relatively dry area, and most of the species that her branch caters to are smaller prey species - hares, kea, and lemmings, and the occasional arctic fox. Most of the infrastructure is built for people half her size or more, and being an aquatic species, she's not really built to be living terrestrially 24/7 - wearing glasses is all well and good until your prescription breaks and the best replacement pair you can find is built for a stoat, and sure, she can afford a doctor if anything comes up, but no one in her area would really know much about her species, and can she really afford the time and effort added to the expenses of flying to somewhere else entirely just to see a specialist?

As is, she feels just... stuck. She handles it, mostly, with a mix of "gritting her teeth and bearing it" and "heading out to a nearby city which actually has infrastructure for anything bigger than a fox". She sort of has to make a Day of it every time she travels out, but it's better than staying in the same town all day, and paying a bit extra for a night out isn't *too* bad, all things considered. The situation, as is, is perfectly fine. She just... wishes that she could make something of her life beyond being stagnant in a town that she expected to just be a stop in the road.

🥛 [MILK] What is your OC's relationship with their biological parents like? What about their relationship with any non-biological parental figures?

Well... it's complicated. She doesn't have a bad relationship with them, per se, but it's a bit distant - she moved to an entirely different part of the world to take this job, and most of her communication with family members is by video call and similar things as a result. She cares for her family, and she wouldn't trade them for the world, really - but they expect a lot from her, and she's been stuck at the same place long enough that she's not sure she can live up to it.

Penelope sits in the awkward sort of space where she was academically successful, but that success didn't really transfer to almost anything else. She's got a job, she's good at it, she's got a degree - but she still can't get a job besides the one she's been stuck in for years already, and "still working at the same bank" isn't the sort of thing that feels good to say, especially when you've been in the same place for far longer than you've ever wanted to be.

Her parents love her. Her mother still holds out faith that she'll get that one promotion - just a few more years and you'll get your big break, just a bit more work and they'll notice how industrious you are, just a tiny bit more effort and you'll get a better position - but you can only believe something so much when you feel like you've been stuck in the same rut for so long. There's only so much you can hear about how you have so much potential before you start feeling like you're wasting yourself, and at this point... having the same things repeated starts feeling a bit like every day she doesn't get that break is a day she's wasting her potential.

She does not currently have any non-biological parental figures. Probably a bit late in her life to get one, but who knows at this point, honestly?

🍏 [GREEN APPLE] How do they differ from the norm and how are they punished for it?

...there's a lot.

Though her workplace tried to provide accomodations when she first arrived, it's been more than eight years, and nowadays she has to do most of her accomodation herself. Her eyes aren't really made to focus above water, she's got a very different body plan than most people at the branch, she's a predator big enough to make most of the other folks in her branch a bit instinctually nervous, and being one of the only seals that most people know means that she's been re-introduced to the same three harbor seals entirely too many times by now.

People don't really make chairs for people with tails the size of their bodies around here, which means that chair backs that accomodate her are generally a matter of either custom order or hoping that she's going somewhere that's dealt with one of the other half-dozen folks with the same needs.

Penelope is, fundamentally, Not From Around Here. She's not a species that's found around here, she's not a species that's especially adapted for here, and despite being a seal that's only around a metre long she still towers over most of the people at her branch. The closest person to her size is an arctic fox in the tax department, and he still doesn't really have the same sort of experience as her. She doesn't fit The Norm, pretty much in any way, and it... really, really shows.

#asks #we speak #ocs #penelope #we took a while to answer this but anyways heres penelope she works at a bank #and then on weekends she goes to the city to get drunk off her ass and try to forget the overwhelming dread of stagnation #top ten women to expose gaps in your accessibility just by going to your place #she goes to like the same bar every time she goes Out On The Town because its the one bar that another seal works at #and theyre usually pretty good with being Not Awful because of it #anyways the most vital info about her is that she very much needs glasses but she doesnt wear them unless shes at work #the fun thing about seeing other people's ocs is that we'll see so many people making characters who are like #Important. Powerful. Cool. shit like that. and then we are here with our characters like “yeah shes an accountant” #“she feels really stuck in life and like she cant live up to the standards of her family” #“also she has to special-order chair backs bc her tail is the size of her entire torso and no one accommodates for that here” #anthro #we guess #thanks for your patience btw! we spent. way too long figuring out how to summarize her #in case youre wondering she is also struggling with a mid-life sexuality crisis just as a treat for Us Writing Her #for fun. and profit. and also being at that age where she was supposed to have settled down with a nice boy already #and now her mother is dropping increasingly obvious “you know its okay if you have something you need to tell us penelope” #“if there are any special girls in your life that you might want to bring home-” #and she lives halfway across the world and isnt dating anyone or even sure that shes on the dating market anymore #problems disease and etc. this post is over 1000 words already we'll cut it off here

[thepinnipedparade]

Guadalupe fur seal (L) – the Guadalupe fur seal's big "Only God can kill me" energy saw it advance in Round 0.5 with a whopping 74.6% of the vote. For details about the species, see that post.

New Zealand fur seal (R) – this otariid's name is apparently contested between the settler-colonialist nations of New Zealand and Australia, so let me just say that its scientific name is Arctocephalus forsteri and its te reo Maori name is kekeno. They live on the South Island of New Zealand and the southwestern coast of Australia. At one breeding site in New Zealand, mother fur seals will leave their pups upstream at a waterfall where they can safely swim (away from predators and strong currents) while the mothers hunt!

#guadalupe fur seal #new zealand fur seal #australian fur seal #australasian fur seal #long-nosed fur seal #antipodean fur seal #fur seal #pinnipeds #pinniped #tumblr pinniped contest #round 1

[tinyfrenchowl]

A la chorale on s'est posé une question cruciale ce soir: est-ce que les phoques transpirent?

Alors je sais pas (encore) pour toutes les espèces, mais j'ai trouvé pour le phoque antarctique Arctocephalus tropicalis: il a des glandes sudoripares sur le tronc sous la fourrure, mais aussi sur certain endroits dépourvus de fourrure comme le bout des nageoires. Il semblerait que ce soient celles au bout des nageoires qui servent à la transpiration.

Source: Bester, M.N., van Ouwerkerk, M. Aspects of the skin morphology in the sub-Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis. Zoomorphology 142, 519–525 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-023-00619-2

(J'avoue j'ai juste lu l'abstract)

[pinnipediia]

The Guadalupe Fur Seals (Arctocephalus townsendi)

Content: Dead animal discussion and photos below the cut (not gory)

On my very first day, my mentor brought me out to collect a carcass of a guadalupe fur seal yearling! This was super exciting because it's not every day that a collectable carcass shows up, plus I wasn't expecting it to be on my first day. Later that evening, my roommate was out on a walk and found another yearling! This one I called my mentor over for. Super lucky to find two in one day.

Fun Fact! You can tell Northern fur seals and Guadalupe fur seals apart by looking at their fore flippers! Guads have fur that extend down their flipper as seen below:

"Guadalupe fur seal yearlings have a habit of showing up deceased on the northern US pacific coast. What's up with that?"

Great question!

The Guadalupe fur seal (GFS), Arctocephalus townsendi, a threatened species listed under the Endangered Species Act, has had a recent history of increased stranding events along the U.S. west coast, prompting NOAA Fisheries to declare two separate Unusual Mortality Events to investigate the phenomenon. The causes of deaths are generally well-described, with necropsies finding emaciation to be the most common one. Conservation efforts for the species have led to increases in the population size and re-expansion of range, and a consequent increase in the occurrence of strandings. Additionally, it’s possible that the warming waters may be altering the distribution of prey, presenting foraging challenges for juveniles. Due to needing to learn to survive independently, post-weaning is considered to be a very critical time period for young seals, making the months of May through July the most common time for strandings to occur.

(Written by me)

TLDR; climate change and conservation efforts boosting the population

⚠ full body, non-gory photos of deceased GFSs below

these babies had very very little blubber on them, very emaciated with no stomach contents and one of them had very little blood in its body!

#marine biology #marine mammals #wildlife #zoology #biology #pinnipeds #cw animal death #animal death #deceased #educational content #guadalupe fur seal

[outbackranger108]

1st Gen TD Contestants' Spirit Animals

Gwen - Common Raven (Corvuc Corax)

Trent - Great Green Macaw (Ara Ambiguus)

Bridgette - Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus)

Geoff - Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia Mydas)

Duncan - Harpy Eagle (Harpia Harpyja)

Courtney - Snowy Owl (Bubo Scandiacus)

Lindsay - American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus Ruber)

Tyler - Cheetah (Acinonyx Jubatus)

Heather - Black Mamba (Dendroaspis Polylepis)

Noah - Meerkat (Suricata Suricatta)

Cody - Chinstrap Penguin (Pygoscelis Antarcticus)

DJ - African Savanna Elephant (Loxodonta Africana)

Owen - Warthog (Phacochoerus Africanus)

Izzy - Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes)

Harold - Giraffe (Giraffa Camelopardalis)

Leshawna - Hippo (Hippopotamus Amphibius)

Beth - Beaver (Castor canadensis)

Justin - Indian Peafowl (Pavo Cristatus)

Katie - Red Panda (Ailurus Fulgens)

Sadie - Giant Panda (Ailuropoda Melanoleuca)

Eva - Wolverine (Gulo Gulo)

Ezekiel - Opossum (Didelphis Marsupialis)

Alejandro - Jaguar (Panthera Onca)

Sierra - Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus Gazella)

#total drama #spirit animals #animals

[sneakygreenbean]

7

The animals I look forward to the most when i visit aquariums are definitely bivalves and other mollusks, as those are my all time favorite marine friends. however, there is a place on the podium for the following flatfish:

this right here is peak humor. left facing? thats a summer flounder. right facing? my guy, take a guess.

I hold a special place in my heart for the freshwater mussels in the family Margaritiferidae, because when I lived in New Hampshire as a kid, I used to catch these in the lake. its rare to see them specifically in aquariums, because aquariums are mainly saltwater. (at least in New England)

as for mammals, I like the South African fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), a type of eared seal (not true seals, as there are subtle differences) I saw these a few days ago at the aquarium in Boston.

I do feel its worth mentioning my favorite fish names, which I see occasionaly, depending on the aquarium. they are as follows: the French Grunt, the Permit fish, the Porgy, the Spot fish, the Wahoo, and the Weakfish. lovely creatures.

because of the book "twenty thousand leagues under the sea" i feel its worth mentioning that whenever i see a triggerfish i go absolutely insane. i feel the need to point out that it is indeed a triggerfish to everyone i meet. (Order of Plectognaths, sub-order of scleroderms, family ballistidae) (i say that too)

so yeah! i like fish a lot!

#ask game #twenty thousand leagues under the sea #triggerfish #french grunt #watch me be the first to tag at least one of these fish #Margaritiferidae #permit fish #porgy #spot fish #wahoo (fish) #weakfish #aquarium #south african fur seal #summer flounder #winter flounder #FISH #the autism

[lord-allo]

Kolonie der Südafrikanischen Seebären | Brown fur seal colony

(+ Flamingos)

III

Arctocephalus pusillus

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Die Tonnen sind von einer Austernzucht. Darunter sind Körbe, in denen die Austern wachsen.

The tons are for oyster farming. Among them are baskets in which the oysters grow.

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(Walvis Bay)

#SüdafrikanischerSeebär #Brownfurseal #Capefurseal #Southafricanfurseals #Australianfurseals #Arctocephaluspusillus #WalvisBay #Namibia #Afrika #Africa

[gegengeschichte]

Die Robben (Pinnipedia) sind ein Taxon im Wasser lebender Raubtiere (Carnivora) und gehören somit ökologisch zu den Meeressäugern. Die wissenschaftliche Bezeichnung „Pinnipedia“, abgeleitet von den lateinischen Wörtern pinna ‚Flosse‘ und pes ‚Fuß‘, bedeutet Flossenfüßer. Robben sind mittelgroße bis große Säugetiere, die Längen zwischen 1,20 und 6 Metern erreichen können. Das Gewicht schwankt zwischen den Arten extrem und liegt zwischen 25 Kilogramm bei Weibchen der Antarktischen Seebären (Arctocephalus gazella) [Anm. d. Red.: die Leibspeise des Antarktischen Seerhinozeros] und mehr als 4 Tonnen bei männlichen Südlichen See-Elefanten (Mirounga leonina).

Der Robbenkörper hat eine torpedoförmige Gestalt [Anm. d. Red.: Strömungswiderstand geringer].

Statt des typischen Raubtiergebisses haben die meisten Robben ein eher gleichförmiges Fischfressergebiss [Anm. d. Red.: ????????????]. Geboren werden Robben meistens mit einem dichten Fell, das beim Älterwerden verschwindet und durch ein kurzes Haarkleid ersetzt wird. Der Robbenmagen ist ein einfacher länglicher Schlauch und darauf eingerichtet, als Ganzes verschluckte Beute aufzunehmen [Anm. d. Red.: „Mit einem Haps sind sie im Mund“]. Im Wasser spielen Robben die Vorteile ihres Körperbaus aus; an Land wirken Robben eher unbeholfen.

#tiere #robben #wikipedia #zufälliger artikel #was zum geier ist ein fischfressergebiss #seebär #qualle #und hier steht auch noch was zum lesen #was voll wichtiges und so #german #german stuff

[ambientalmercantil]

#GESTÃOAMBIENTAL #GESTÃOSUSTENTÁVEL #PROTEÇÃOAOSANIMAIS