Females will average approximately 6. Males are dark brown, gray, or black with smaller, lighter spots. Females have a tan or light gray background with darker spots.
Their most distinctive feature is the shape of their head. They can be very vocal and aggressive. Gray seals are born from mid-December to early February. Mothers nurse their pups for approximately 16 days. After pups are weaned, mothers may leave the colony but pups remain for several more days or weeks living off blubber reserves.
We do not have a good estimate of how many gray seals are currently in U. Canadian population models estimate that there are likely around , in Canadian waters.
Gray seal abundance appears to be increasing. Warming ocean waters are bringing the sharks further north for longer periods of time. Seals are a prey source of marine mammal eating sharks, so this and the growing gray seal population may be the reasons we are seeing more great whites closer to shore in Massachusetts when seals are present during the summer.
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What is typical gray seal behavior? Researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered that seals sleep with only half their brains. The other half of the brain remains awake and alert. The researchers believe this serves to help the seals remain alert to potential dangers. In fact, the part of the brain that remains awake contains high levels of acetylcholine, which helps with alertness -- while the half that's asleep has low levels of the same chemical.
Seals tend to sleep on the beach if the water they inhabit has predators such as great white sharks or orcas.
Seals live in such large groups that they can often be found sleeping one on top of another. Harbor seals have adapted to life on the shore and spend most of their time there, sometimes going into the water only to hunt or for a quick splash, according to the ReefNews website. Tammy Dray has been writing since She specializes in health, wellness and travel topics and has credits in various publications including Woman's Day, Marie Claire, Adirondack Life and Self.
However, Siegel says there is lots of evidence against this. The ill effects seen in sleep deprivation experiments in animals may be a consequence of repeatedly being woken up, Siegel says.
As part of the new study, he and his colleagues reviewed data on how other mammals sleep. When the whole brain is in non-REM sleep, it cools down. REM may be needed to bring the temperature back up. Previous studies have found that humans and other animals are more alert when they are woken at the end of REM sleep than after non-REM sleep.
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