fur seal

Callorhinus ursinus | My first underwater shots of them since their habitat was just cleaned this morning. Super cool to see

Taken November 2024.

Izu Mito Sea Paradise (Shizuoka, Japan)

Arctocephalus pusillus

A while ago i made the thread 'South American Fur Seals in Europe'. After that i wanted to make a list of all the pinniped species currently in Europe, but i soon found out that that would be a lot of work. Maybe one day... So for now i started making a list of all the fur seal species...

They keep South American fur seals in my homezoo. I really like these animals and I even adopted one in my homezoo. Because there are not so many South American fur seals in Europe, I wanted to find out how many and which ones currently live and have lived in Europe. I sent an email to...

Hello everybody, My name is Max, at the moment I am doing an internship in a zoo. This is where i am trying to get my first experiences with working in zoo's. At the moment I am doing a research about eye problems of the pinnipeds (sea mammals) that this zoo owns. Has anybody here also done...

New baby Tamar (25.05.2017) suckling.

New Zealand fur seal

New Zealand fur seal

The New England aquarium has announced the first birth for the aquarium of a northern fur seal this week. The newborn is the 13th Northern fur seal born in an American aquarium or zoo. Aquarium announces birth of rare baby seal - Metro Desk - Local news updates from The Boston Globe

One thing that seems to be really hard to do is to build an outstanding pinniped (i.e. sea lion, fur seal, harbour seal, grey seal etc.) enclosure - especially in Europe. While North America already has had some truly amazing pinniped enclosures for decades, Europe is really trailing behind...