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marinefutureslab.bsky.social
Happy International Seal Day! 🌊 Every 22nd of March we celebrate International Seal Day.

With their playful and inquisitive nature, seals are always a fascinating sight in the #BRUVS videos.

#InternationalSealDay #MarineScience
March 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
finamoon.bsky.social
What! I missed #InternationalSealDay yesterday. These playful and intelligent animals are found in oceans all over the globe and play a crucial role in maintaining marine ecosystems. Take a moment to appreciate these amazing creatures and learn more about how we can help protect them. #sealday
luishuckstadt.bsky.social Dr Luis Huckstadt @luishuckstadt.bsky.social · Mar 22
Happy #InternationalSealDay to all of us who celebrate 🦭
uniexecec.bsky.social University of Exeter CEC @uniexecec.bsky.social · Mar 22
Happy International Seal Day!

🧑‍🔬 Dr Luis Huckstadt - senior lecturer with us and marine mammal researcher - tells us why seals are so important:

@luishuckstadt.bsky.social

🌍 #InternationalSealDay #ExeterCEC #SealResearch #SealConservation #MarineMammal #Seal #MarineBiology #ExeterMarine
March 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
kellyjarviswriter.bsky.social
Yesterday was #InternationalSealDay! 🦭🌕 How did I miss it? 🐚 by Beach4Art

#seals #Selkies #SelkieMoon
March 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
podcastquotebot.bsky.social
"They're aquatic mammals like whales, seals, and sea lions." - JOHN LESCUE, Sleep, Radiolab #Radiolab #Sleep #InternationalSealDay #JohnLescue
March 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
dames4games.org
👀 Have you hugged your Seels today? Its International Seal Day and we gotta celebrate! 🦭 Just look at them, being a goofy, seal-y (silly? get it?) pal! 🥰

#Dames4Games ♀ #InternationalSealDay ♀ #Pokemon
a white cartoon character with a red tongue sticking out is sitting on a table
ALT: a white cartoon character with a red tongue sticking out is sitting on a table
media.tenor.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
coastalpaleo.bsky.social
It's #internationalsealday - here's a large harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) pup I saw on the beach this week. I wasn't very close, I have a very large camera lens =] 🐬
the face of a very hefty, mostly white harbor seal pup. The pup has a white face and flanks, and a grayish stripe down the middle of its back, forehead, and nsoe, with a black nose, and many dark brown to blackish irregularly shaped spots. It is asleep, and it is covered in sand.
March 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
ladyofart123.bsky.social
story of a seal
#animals #creature #species #sealday #internationalsealday #sea #water #ocean #shore #rocks #swimming #smiling #drawing #picture #art #emotion #happy
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
freedomtodoubt.bsky.social
Today is #InternationalSealDay so here's hail to the Grey seal that swam and hunted along the #UndercliffPath just east of #Brighton back in February.
What a lovely sight for sore eyes he (I think!) was!
March 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
fivestarwhales.bsky.social
Happy International Seal Day! Every year on March 22nd, the International Day of the Seal promotes the conservation of seals worldwide. It's also a day to celebrate this amazing marine mammal.
#internationalsealday #pinnipeds
March 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
allthingsorca.bsky.social
Water tight seal

#internationalsealday
#marinemammals
#ukwildlife #photography
Grey seal mum takes pup on supervised swim. Farne Islands, 2024
March 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
rilem.nl
🦭Sea Sniffers is an underwater exploration game where you swim around as a seal, catching fish 🦭

And you can make some epic jumps as well ✨

#InternationalSealDay #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
March 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
rilem.nl
SEAL DAY #internationalSealDay
March 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
This is what a wildlife photo from a respectful distance looks like. Pay no attention to my fuzzy sweater.

#WorldSealDay #InternationalSealDay
March 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
emoseal.bsky.social
I can't believe I didn't already know about #InternationalSealDay!!! 🦭
Digital art of a small white seal in the center of a circle with a watery background and its front flippers resting on a gray surface
March 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
sillyseal.co.uk
happy international seal day! 🦭

if you've made anything seal-themed drop it below I'd love to see!

🏷️ #internationalsealday #seal #marine #smallbusiness #artist #creator
March 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
asls.org.uk
“Silkie”
Joan Baez sings a version of “The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry” (Joan Baez Vol. 2, 1961)
#BookWormSat #InternationalSealDay 🦭
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Zg...
Silkie
YouTube video by Joan Baez - Topic
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March 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
asls.org.uk
“I am a man upon the land,
I am a selkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae land
My hame is in the Sule Skerry.”

—The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)
Image: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)
#BookWormSat #InternationalSealDay 🦭
The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry Traditional An earthly nourris sits and sings And aye she sings, “Ba lilly wean, Little ken I my bairnie’s faither Far less the land that he bides in.” And up come he to her bed fit, And a grumlie guest I’m sure was he, Saying, “Here am I, thy bairnie’s faither Although I may not comely be. “I am a man upon the land, I am a selkie in the sea, And when I’m far and far frae land My hame is in the Sule Skerry.” Then he has taen a purse of gold And he has set it on her knee, Saying, “Gie to me, my ain wee son, And you accept your nourris fee. “It shall come to pass on a summer’s day When the sun shines bricht on every stane That I will tak my ain wee son And learn him how to swim the faem. “And you will marry a proud gunner, And a richt good gunner I’m sure he’ll be, And wi the first shot that e’er he fires He’ll kill baith my bonnie son and me.” A monochrome illustration. A young woman cradles a baby at her breast. She looks over her shoulder towards a strange, splay-legged figure, bearded, with a drooping moustache and staring, inhuman eyes. He reaches out his right hand, offering the woman a small sack of coins.
March 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
markyp1234.bsky.social
Just been told it’s #InternationalSealDay 🦭🦭🦭
March 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
drhypercube.bsky.social
#InternationalSealDay you say? Well, here you go!
An orange San Francisco Seals tshirt (and a copy of Alert Diver and a Victoria Mussels tshirt). A panoramic photo of a large group of Northern Elephant Seals hauled out on a beach on the central coast of California.
March 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
asls.org.uk
“Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

—Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”
#BookWormSat #InternationalSealDay 🦭
www.theguardian.com/books/video/...
Robin Robertson reads At Roane Head - video
In this remarkable and powerful narrative poem, which won the Forward prize for best single poem in 2009, Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie - seal-creature...
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
asls.org.uk
She’d had four sons, I knew that well enough,
and each one wrong. All born blind, they say,
slack-jawed and simple, web-footed,
rickety as sticks…

—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
published in the @lrb.co.uk, 14 August 2008
#BookWormSat #InternationalSealDay 🦭
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
At Roane Head Robin Robertson for John Burnside You’d know her house by the drawn blinds – by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall, the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry. You’d tell it by the quicken and the pine that hid it from the sea and from the brief light of the sun, and by Aonghas the collie, lying at the door where he died: a rack of bones like a sprung trap. A fork of barnacle geese came over, with that slow squeak of rusty saws. The bitter sea’s complaining pull and roll; a whicker of pigeons, lifting in the wood. She’d had four sons, I knew that well enough, and each one wrong. All born blind, they say, slack-jawed and simple, web-footed, rickety as sticks. Beautiful faces, I’m told, though blank as air. Someone saw them once, outside, hirpling down to the shore, chittering like rats, and said they were fine swimmers, but I would have guessed at that. Her husband left her: said they couldn’t be his, they were more fish than human; he said they were beglamoured, and searched their skin for the showing marks. For years she tended each difficult flame: their tight, flickering bodies. Each night she closed the scales of their eyes to smoor the fire. Until he came again, that last time, thick with drink, saying he’d had enough of this, all this witchery, and made them stand in a row by their beds, twitching. Their hands flapped; herring-eyes rolled in their heads. He went along the line relaxing them one after another with a small knife. They say she goes out every night to lay blankets on the graves to keep them warm. It would put the heart across you, all that grief. There was an otter worrying in the leaves, a heron loping slow over the water when I came at scraich of day, back to her door. She’d hung four stones in a necklace, wore four rings on the hand that led me past the room with four small candles burning which she called ‘the room of rain’. Milky smoke poured up from the grate like a waterfall in reverse and she said my name, and it was the only thing and the last thing that she said. She gave me a skylark’s egg in a bed of frost; gave me twists of my four sons’ hair; gave me her husband’s head in a wooden box. Then she gave me the sealskin, and I put it on.
March 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
wildlife-beacon.bsky.social
Seals may seem abundant, but some species are on the brink of extinction.

Four seal species are now Endangered or worse, with populations shrinking due to habitat loss, pollution and human activity.

Some have fewer than 1,000 left in the wild 🦭

#InternationalSealDay
March 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
cascoclauda.bsky.social
happy #internationalsealday! fun fact: about 2 million years ago in the early pleistocene, the UK used to be home to a species of walrus named ontocetus posti 🦭
(art by jaime bran)
a large, short-tusked walrus lounges on a rocky outcrop by the ocean's shore
March 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
bethgabriel.bsky.social
Happy #InternationalSealDay 🦭

- Pinnipeds (fin/flipper footed)
- a group of semi aquatic marine mammals made up of seals, sea lions and walruses.
- elephant seals are the biggest of the pinnipeds
- they’re very cool creatures!
March 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
luishuckstadt.bsky.social
Happy #InternationalSealDay to all of us who celebrate 🦭
uniexecec.bsky.social University of Exeter CEC @uniexecec.bsky.social · Mar 22
Happy International Seal Day!

🧑‍🔬 Dr Luis Huckstadt - senior lecturer with us and marine mammal researcher - tells us why seals are so important:

@luishuckstadt.bsky.social

🌍 #InternationalSealDay #ExeterCEC #SealResearch #SealConservation #MarineMammal #Seal #MarineBiology #ExeterMarine
March 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM