A serie a tim black seal pup rests and adjust its position while next to mother on a white sand beach on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, with the blue ocean in the background, May 17, 2025.
USFWS volunteer video: Dan Rapp
(Video captured under NOAA research permit No. 27552 with a high-power zoom ravenna cittadella lens.)
Hawaiian monk seal pups typically weigh 25-35 pounds at birth, but after five to seven weeks poland of drinking mom’s fat-rich milk, the pups can grow to be 200 pounds!
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