Mother and Baby Baikal Seal. They live in Siberia, Russia, in a Freshwater Lake!
The Baikal seal is the world's only totally freshwater-living pinniped reddit.com/gallery/oaa721
The Baikal seal is the world's only totally freshwater-living pinniped reddit.com/gallery/oaa721
The Baikal Seal, the only exclusively freshwater pinniped
The Baikal seal is the world's only totally freshwater-living pinniped reddit.com/gallery/oaa721
The Uncertain Future of Finlandβs Rare Freshwater Seals atlasobscura.com/articlesβ¦
The Uncertain Future of Finlandβs Rare Freshwater Seals atlasobscura.com/articlesβ¦
The Uncertain Future of Finlandβs Rare Freshwater Seals. The animals face threats from climate change, fishing, and a tourism boom, but their biggest advocate remains hopeful. atlasobscura.com/articlesβ¦
The Baikal seal is the world's only totally freshwater-living pinniped reddit.com/gallery/oaa721
The Baikal seal is only one of three species of freshwater seals in the world. Reaches 165 cm in length and weighs up to 130 kg. The seal got to Baikal during the Ice Age from the Arctic Ocean. Now there are about 100 thousand of them. reddit.com/gallery/lzmctd
Baikal seals, also known as Nerpa, are the world's only exclusively freshwater seals gfycat.com/thatunequaledgβ¦
The Baikal Seal, the only exclusively freshwater pinniped (/r/GoogleMaps)
TIL - That the Nerpa or Baikal Seal is the only freshwater seal in existence and lives exclusively in Lake Baikal. No-one knows how their ancestors got there since the lake lies hundreds of miles inland and has existed for 20-25 million years. sciencedirect.com/topics/β¦
The Saimaa Ringed Seal. Heβs a freshwater fella
Lake Baikal freshwater seal pup - photo by Sergey Anisimov
Water Doggo. Introducing people sorting by "New" in r/teenagers to intersting animals day #7: The Baikal seal is endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It is one of the smallest true seals and the only exclusively freshwater pinniped species. It is known locally as the "nerpa." reddit.com/gallery/j7jotd
Mystery of Siberian freshwater seal food choice solved phys.org/news/2020-11-mysβ¦
Which Tier would the Baikal Seal, AKA, the nerpa, fall into? Itβs the only pinniped class adapted to the freshwater server of Lake Baikal
I spotted a seal in a freshwater pond near UCF, I don't know how it got there or if it's supposed to be there...
I spotted a seal at 2pm, under the bridge between Riverwind and Publix on Alafaya Trail. I'm unsure if it's natural for that to happen or it requires animal rescue or not
I have taken picture and video in case I need proof
Edit: here's the photo I took https://imgur.com/a/LAK38IA
Update: It turns out to be a manatee, so there's no problem :v
Edit #2: FFS, I'm an Asian studying in the US, I haven't seen manatees before so just give me a break already
TIL it remains a scientific mystery how Baikal Seals originally came to Lake Baikal, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean. Estimated to have inhabited Lake Baikal for some two million years, the Baikal Seal is the only true freshwater seal on Earth. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiβ¦
π₯ Freshwater seal in frozen Lake Baikal, Russia
Meet the Nerpa seal, the world's only freshwater seal species, found exclusively at Lake Baikal. Image: SERGEY GABDURAKHMANOV/FLICKR
TIL: The only freshwater seal lives in the worlds largest freshwater lake in Baikal, Russia. " It remains a scientific mystery how the seals originally came to Lake Baikal, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiβ¦
TIL that lake Baikal holds 1/5 of world's fresh water. Also, out of around 1200 animal and 600 plant species, 75 % are only found in Baikal (including the world's only freshwater seal) lakebaikal.org/lake-baikaβ¦
Environmentalists Seek Endangered Species Listing for Alaskaβs Freshwater Seals time.com/5779679/alaska-eβ¦
The Baikal seal is the only pinniped (seals, sea lions and walruses) that is restricted exclusively to a freshwater habitat. It is confined almost entirely to Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's deepest lake. gfycat.com/PoliteFarHowleβ¦
This lake has the worldβs only true freshwater seal species.
Did Noah have to save things living in water like fish, dolphins, seals etc, or did he just leave them to swim around? What about needing freshwater and saltwater for different animals/fish?
Finland is trying to save the last 360 Saimaa ringed seals remaining in the world -- one of just five freshwater seal species left -- by broadcasting a livestream of an area where the seals are often spotted during the month of May. The live feed often just shows a stream flowing past rocks. wwf.fi/en/norppalive/?s_cβ¦
TIL that there is a freshwater subspecies of Habour Seals, living in the lakes of northern Quebec, Canada. They became landlocked some 3,000 to 8,000 years ago and have evolved unique characteristics. nunatsiaqonline.ca/archivβ¦
Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica), is endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia. Baikal seal is one of the smallest true seals and the only exclusively freshwater pinniped species. gfycat.com/GrossElasticHoβ¦
No Endangered Species Act listing for Iliamna Lake's harbor seals - The nation's only known population of freshwater seals will not get protections under the Endangered Species Act thebristolbaytimes.com/arβ¦
The Baikal seal is the only pinniped (seals, sea lions and walruses) that is restricted exclusively to a freshwater habitat. It is confined almost entirely to Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's deepest lake. gfycat.com/PoliteFarHowleβ¦
Saimaa ringed sea, an endangered freshwater seal
Freshwater seals of Lake Baikal scienceblogs.com/tetrapodβ¦
Baikal (Nerpa) seals ,the only freshwater seals. imgur.com/a/bgxLo
TIL that the world's smallest true seal is also the only exclusively freshwater seal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiβ¦
Something went awwry with my last post, so here again is earth's only freshwater seal flickr.com/photos/nodoca/β¦
