Thread: which seal is which?
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Old 26-10-2006, 10:59 AM
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Re: which seal is which?
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Originally Posted by Alan
These both look like Common Seals to me.

V - shaped nostrils as opposted to parallel ones of Grey, more rounder features than Grey, and one of the other names of the Common is Spotted Seal - Greys are more 'patchy' and less 'speckled' than these.
So is this sexual dimorphism then - because the one on the left seems to have a bigger head and muzzel?
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