File:The king of the harem - geograph.org.uk - 1016295.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The_king_of_the_harem_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1016295.jpg(640 × 553 pixels, file size: 164 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: The king of the harem Enormously fat, and fast asleep. The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a medium-sized seal with the bulls weighting up to 300 kg and the cows being much smaller and weighing 100-150 kg. There are several colonies of grey seals along the British and Irish coasts. Large colonies numbering up to 6,000 animals can be seen at the Farne Islands off the Northumberland Coast, on North Rona (Scotland), on Lambay Island (near Dublin) and Ramsey Island off the coast of Pembrokeshire. In Norfolk small colonies of grey and of common seals can be seen near Blakeney and there is a colony of grey seals along a section of coast between the villages of Horsey and Winterton. The latter spend several weeks out of water when their pups are born in December and January; around 100 seal pups are born here every year. Grey seals feed on a wide variety of fish, basically any that are available, which they catch at depths down to 70 metres; sand eels form an important part in their diet in many localities as do octopus, crabs and lobsters. The daily food requirement is estimated to be 5kg; the animals do not feed every day, however, and they fast during the breeding season. Grey_Seal
Date
Source From geograph.org.uk
Author Evelyn Simak
Attribution
(required by the license)
InfoField
Evelyn Simak / The king of the harem / 
Evelyn Simak / The king of the harem
Camera location52° 44′ 49″ N, 1° 40′ 09″ E  Heading=45° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location52° 44′ 50″ N, 1° 40′ 11″ E  Heading=45° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing[edit]

w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Evelyn Simak
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:14, 23 February 2011Thumbnail for version as of 12:14, 23 February 2011640 × 553 (164 KB)GeographBot (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=The king of the harem Enormously fat, and fast asleep. The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a medium-sized seal with the bulls weighting up to 300 kg and the cows being much smaller and weighin

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata