“In years with good conditions, you have lots of fish biomass, and the seals will eat about a kilogram [2.2 pounds] of fish more per day, and that leads to them having about 20% more mass in a ...

A baby seal found stranded on a street near Yale ... but began having digestive difficulties as he transitioned to eating whole fish. A necropsy found Chappy suffered from "mesenteric torsion ...

Although they breathe air, seals are most at home in the water and may stay at sea for weeks at a time eating fish, squid, birds, and tiny shrimp-like krill. Fur seals may swim by themselves or ...

“To put harp seals’ consumption levels in perspective, they eat more Atlantic cod in one year than Newfoundland & Labrador’s fish harvesters caught during the 30-year period from 1992 to 202 ...

“They are telling people that seals are ‘stealing’ their fish. “The fact of the matter is that these seals eat about a pound of food per square mile and majority of their hunting occurs ...

The species' average lifespan is from 25 to 30 years. FEEDING: Monk seals eat a variety of fish, cephalopods and crustaceans, with common prey including reef fish, octopus, squid, lobster and eel.