#spotted seals

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listen to her honks!!!

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Evil fujoshi caretakers force seals to kiss for their own sick twisted enjoyment 😔

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Things i collected in my gathering

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Get bubbled at, idiot

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Baby seal and seal-shaped shortbread

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For spotted seals, receding sea ice off northern Japan proves blessing and potential curse

Climate change has allowed spotted seals to find new hunting grounds, but the marine mammals ultimately depend on sea ice to survive.

Summary of this story from the Washington Post:

For spotted seals, climate change is both a blessing and a curse, The Post’s Simon Denyer and Akiko Kashiwagi report.

On the one hand: Sea ice along Japan’s northern coastline is receding, allowing seals to swim through the La Pérouse (or Soya) Strait to the Sea of Japan along Hokkaido’s western coast. The seals go there to eat salmon and octopus from fishermen’s nets.

But on the other....The ice melting could be bad for spotted seals long term. Spotted seals raise their newborn pups on the ice in mid-March. “Poor quality or insufficient sea ice could reduce survival rates,” Denyer and Kashiwagi write. In addition, from seasonally melting sea ice comes phytoplankton, the base of the marine food web.

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