The births peak in December, but can sometimes stretch beyond the end of January.
Over the 2020-21 season, 2,778 pups were born, significantly up on the previous breeding season when 2,3016 were counted, according tois growing in size year on year and spreading out both to the north and south," she said. The charity estimated 2,800 adult seals were on the beach this year. After the pups are born, they will drink their mother's fatty milk for three weeks, enabling them to gain around 4.5 pounds of weight per day. When the feeding cycle is over, the mother leaves her pup to mate and will not return. The pup must then wait for three weeks for their fluffy white fur toSeals lay on a beach in Norfolk. Mothers will leave their pups after three weeks of suckling.
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