Seal ID, Newcomb Hollow Beach, Cape Cod (1 Viewer)

LazDivaz

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• Sep 15, 2012

• #1

I thought that these were grey harbour seals from afar, but up close, I saw that they have flaring nostrils and long boney snouts. They were in the sea about 15 meters from the shore in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Could they be horse head seals? Or what?
Thanks

 

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TWM

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• Sep 15, 2012

• #2

They look like Grey Seals to me.

 

LazDivaz

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• Sep 15, 2012

• #3

TWM said:

They look like Grey Seals to me.

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But I think that the horsehead seals are a variety of grey seals, distinct, for example, from the grey harbour seal, which these definitely are not.

 

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Paul Penzance

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• Sep 16, 2012

• #4

All males so probably a stag weekend

 

Mysticete

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• Sep 16, 2012

• #5

horsehead seal = old name for Gray Seal, which I don't think is used anymore (very appropriate though if you have ever seen the skull of an adult male)

Gray Seals are a different species from Harbor Seal.