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Weddell seal pup and mother
A mother Weddell seal (left) and pup pop through a breathing hole in the ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. An NSF-supported study examined the early development of thermoregulation and diving physiology in Weddell seal pups.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant OPP 1543539.]
Learn more in the NSF Research News story To cut costs, Weddell seal pups keep swimming when trading in their fluff. (Date image taken: Dec. 6, 2017; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: May 19, 2022)
Credit: Linnea Pearson (NMFS permit #21006-01, ACA permit #2018-013 M1)
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