Tuesday, August 12, 2008

#34: Molting Update

The molting season is in full swing for the harbor seals. Here are some photos from the past few days of Smoke, our oldest harbor seal.

The brown areas are patches of old hair, the silver is all new stuff.

-Justin

Labels: hair, Harbor Seals, Justin, molting, Smoke

1 Comments:

pika said...: They're so cute! Their nails are really long!; August 12, 2008 12:14 PM

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