{"id":42422,"date":"2017-11-28T19:28:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T19:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleines.wpengine.com\/mais-quelle-est-cette-espece-de-phoque\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:49:16","slug":"what-kind-of-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/what-kind-of-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"What kind of seal is that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One observer reported a seal carcass found in Cacouna to the Marine Mammals Emergencies call centre. What species is it? Here is a brief guide to identify the most common species of pinnipeds found in the St. Lawrence. Note that these criteria are also valid for identifying live seals!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fur<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>First and foremost, the coat is the best clue: is it spotted or uniform? Are the spots well defined or rather contour-less? Is the fur cream- or charcoal-coloured?<\/p>\n<p>The coat of the harbour seal is diagnostic: white lines forming well-defined rings on a dark background. The coat pattern in gray seals is more subtle. This species has a black-and-white spotted coat, with a less well-cut pattern of blotches as the white lines are not well defined, explains Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Gosselin of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The harp seal, on the other hand, is the easiest to recognize in adulthood: the body is cream-coloured, except for the head which appears to be draped in a black balaclava, while its back shows an impressive horseshoe-shaped mark.<\/p>\n<p>Young harp seals change their coats several times. At birth, they are covered with thick, fluffy white fur. After two weeks, this thick coat gives way to shorter, spotted fur that will look almost the same until the age of four, after which the horseshoe pattern appears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One observer reported a seal carcass found in Cacouna to the Marine Mammals Emergencies call centre. What species is it? Here is a brief guide to identify the most common species of pinnipeds found in the St. Lawrence. Note that these criteria are also valid for identifying live seals! 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