Mastodawn

For #WildlifeWednesday and #WhiskersWednesday, here's a memory from 2010 when we visited the #Seal Centre #Friedrichskoog. This sanctuary rescues and raises abandoned seal pups and provides a home for a few adult seals that cannot be released back into the North Sea. It rehabilitates both grey seals and harbour seals, the two seal species native to Germany. 🦭

#Seehundstation #SeehundstationFriedrichskoog #Seehund #Seehunde #Robbe #Robben #Hundsrobbe #PhocaVitulina #commonSeal #harbourSeal #harbourSeals #harborSeal #harborSeals #wildllife #animalPhotography

Animal Toy Blog Mar 17, 2025

Harbor Seal, 2018 (Arctic & Antarctic Wildlife by Schleich)

In Celtic mythology there exists a creature known as a selkie, a shapeshifting being that takes on the form of a seal when in the water but can transform into a human by removing its sealskin on land. Selkie stories often involve a romantic relationship between a human male and female selkie wherein the human hides her sealskin so she cannot return to the sea, forcing her into marriage but […]

#harborSeal #Phoca #PhocaVitulina #Schleich

Harbor Seal, 2018 (Arctic & Antarctic Wildlife by Schleich) – Animal Toy Blog

Jeffrey Gray Feb 19, 2023

It’s such a perfect day (license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) Not to be polly-anna but it occasionally helps to appreciate the wonder in the world. #photography #PhocaVitulinaRichardsii #PhocaVitulina #HarborSeal #California #FortRossSHP