Sunday, October 28, 2007
Seal Photos
One of the researchers doing bloodwork on a sample recently taken from a seal. This photo was taken in their labratory.
Jeff in the kitchen
Mother and seal pup
Mother looking back at her pup
Mother seal chasing her pup - The red stuff in the front is afterbirth as this pup was born less than 2 days before we were there.
There are lots of seal carcasses lying around because the don't decompose, so when we first walked passed these guys I thought maybe they were dead. Nope! Just covered in blowing snow. Like I said in the entry I wrote about the trip out there, the weather was not in our favor. You'll notice my pictures are dark. Not sure if that's because of the weather or because my camera was starting to freeze.
A mother and her pup. In the distance you can see the science group working to set up the scale they use to weigh the seals. They've got some amazingly bright yellow pants!
I had Nick snap my photo in front of the camp just before we left. The snow was blowing so hard that I can't believe there wasn't any caught in the picture in front of my face!
This is a picture of the blue ice in front of the Hutton Cliffs field camp. That's our truck with the cool mattracks!
Jeff in the kitchen
Mother and seal pup
Mother looking back at her pup
Mother seal chasing her pup - The red stuff in the front is afterbirth as this pup was born less than 2 days before we were there.
There are lots of seal carcasses lying around because the don't decompose, so when we first walked passed these guys I thought maybe they were dead. Nope! Just covered in blowing snow. Like I said in the entry I wrote about the trip out there, the weather was not in our favor. You'll notice my pictures are dark. Not sure if that's because of the weather or because my camera was starting to freeze.
A mother and her pup. In the distance you can see the science group working to set up the scale they use to weigh the seals. They've got some amazingly bright yellow pants!
I had Nick snap my photo in front of the camp just before we left. The snow was blowing so hard that I can't believe there wasn't any caught in the picture in front of my face!
This is a picture of the blue ice in front of the Hutton Cliffs field camp. That's our truck with the cool mattracks!
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Those seals are so cute- and I LOVE the pic of you all bundled up- adorable! :)
So they don't decompose... ever?
No, they really don't decompose much at all. It gets warm here for a month or two, and then it all freezes right back up. There is a seal carcass by the Discovery Hut near McMurdo that is something like 90 years old, and it just looks deflated. Other than that, you can see that it's a seal. Strange, eh?