Mammals NZ Fur Seals

[Richard A]

It was raining here all day yesterday so I sat down & processed all (some anyway) of the photos I've been meaning to do for months. These are New Zealand fur seals, kekeno in the Māori language. I have posted a different shot of one of these previously.

• ILCE-7RM5
• 227.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7RM5
• 74.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 400

• ILCE-7RM5
• 171.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 400

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Chunky boys

 

[Richard A]

Actually, they are one of the smaller fur seals I believe but the males can still be pretty big. And look at the teeth on that one! You can see he has a mane which is why they are called sea lions.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Cool, we just have Grey Seals and Harbour Seals, but I live 15 minutes from the second largest colony of greys in the UK. They are fab to watch.

 

[Richard A]

It's not uncommon to see the odd Australian sea lion swimming around the jetty on a beach side suburb of Adelaide, trying to steal fishermen's bait or the contents of crab pots.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

It's not uncommon to see the odd Australian sea lion swimming around the jetty on a beach side suburb of Adelaide, trying to steal fishermen's bait or the contents of crab pots.

Easy pickings

 

[Ralph]

When we went to Tasmania, we done a cruise on a smaller sized boat and they took us to the NZ Seals way out on a rocky outcrop in the sea. I think he said that in a colony of them there are only males.
And then we went to the Australian Fur seals which are bigger not that I could tell. These were smellier than the NZ counterparts and that in their colony there are males and females.
Thought I think that either one have that cute look about them.
I also like the shots that you posted of them.

 

[Richard A]

I remember, when I was a kid, going on a cruise from Philip Island to a sea lion colony. That was pretty smelly. I have been to Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island a couple of times. That is an Australian Sea Lion colony. They are definitely quite a bit bigger. With all the sea lion varieties, the males are generally about three times the size of the females.