\u201cIt\u2019s been a quiet week for whales,\u201d admits a resident of Perc\u00e9<\/b>, \u201cbut grey seals have been abundant. From our place, we can hear them at night howling from the beach or from Bonaventure Island. It\u2019s powerful and haunting… It\u2019s easy to understand why [in French] they\u2019re nicknamed \u201csea wolves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the name \u201csea wolf\u201d is old and widespread, it can surprisingly designate a number of pinniped species, depending on the region. In Quebec, many people even use this term to designate any seal species in the St. Lawrence. Seals were heard a little bit everywhere this week: in Sainte-Flavie<\/b>, Saint-Yvon<\/b>, Cap-aux-Os<\/b>, Franquelin<\/b>, as well as at Cap de Bon-D\u00e9sir<\/b>, where some grey and harbour seals are still lingering, and off the coast of Tadoussac<\/b>, where about thirty harbour seals have been resting on the tidal flats, offering a concert of grunting sounds carried by the wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt\u2019s been a quiet week for whales,\u201d admits a resident of Perc\u00e9, \u201cbut grey seals have been abundant. From our place, we can hear them at night howling from the beach or from Bonaventure Island. It\u2019s powerful and haunting… It\u2019s easy to understand why [in French] they\u2019re nicknamed \u201csea wolves.\u201d Although the name \u201csea wolf\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":46056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n