‘They looked so at ease, where I felt so inappropriate.’ Weddell seals give birth on ice and take their offspring for their first frosty swim a few weeks later. Eventually, the pups will grow up to be ...

When taking their pups for a swim, females would often be harassed ... to properly investigate a small component of the Weddell seals' underwater lives was a privilege and an honour.

Japanese researchers in Antarctica are deploying Weddell seals fitted out with high-tech head-mounted measuring devices to survey waters under the thick ice sheet at the South Pole. It allows ...

which it couldn’t get if it was born underwater. A Weddell seal mum has 6 weeks to teach her pup all he needs to know to go it alone.

Weddell seal fitted with high-tech head-mounted measuring devices to survey waters under the thick ice sheet, near Japan's Showa Station in Antarctica. [Courtesy] A seal wearing a helmet with an ...