21/12/2022
Drumroll, please, for the first melanistic seal pup of the season!
Grey seals of born with white and then shed their fur to expose a grey coat. But about one in every 400 are born with a velvety black coat and these are known as melanistic seals. Melanism is the increased development of the dark-coloured pigment melanin.
π· Hanne Siebers