Cape fur seals can recognize their pup's cry just two hours after birth, remarkably earlier than other mammals. For context, only about 40% of women can identify their baby's cry 24 hours after birth.

A Cape fur seal on Seal Island near Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. Scientists are trying to work out how rabies was passed to the seals, whether it is spreading widely among ...

- Antarctic fur seals need ice-free ground in order to breed. This is a population that experts thought would be climate change winners, that they would be doing better as the climate warmed, ...

But when fur seals are full grown the males get to be close to 400 pounds. SeaWorld tags the animals before they’re returned to the wild. Thomas Fudge .

Guadalupe fur seals live about 20 years on average, the agency said. Females grow to about 110 pounds and males to about 400 pounds. Photos show Sallyfur as a sick pup at the center vs. “all ...

At least 24 Cape fur seals that were found dead or euthanized in various locations on South Africa’s west and south coast had rabies, state veterinarian Dr. Lesley van Helden said.