Jessica Hromas, A young Fur Seal (ANIMALS 2023)

It is hard for even the experts to tell an Australian Fur Seal from a New Zealand fur seal until they see how they move on land. So this may be either but it is wonderful to see that seal populations along the NSW and Victoria coast line are slowly but surely increasing in numbers. Since colonisation the seal populations were decimated with hunting for fur and competing with commercial fishing for survival.

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