SUPERCHARGED SEA PUPS

Sealions of La Paz vs

Grey seals of the Farne Islands

GO GLOBAL

Where dolphins are diffident, pinnipeds are your pals. The autumn months in Mexico’s Baja Peninsula

see Californian sea lion pups honing their skills in the Sea of Cortez.

STAY AT HOME

In Northumberland, grey seal pups have taken to the water off the Farne Islands, a demanding offshore environment for which they must be fattened and fit in time for winter. Where the Californian sea lion is an unglamorous brown, the grey seal is resplendent in photogenic hues of silver. Both use play as a means of asserting themselves in their hierarchical societies. They extend this behaviour to visiting divers – it usually manifests in fin-nipping and acrobatic displays at