Caspian seal pupping

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Photo: Brian Black

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Caspian seal pupping. On ice. Photo: Brian Black. Kazakhstan. River Volga. Russia. Seals breed on the ice. Ice edge forms. In late Autumn the seals head north to have their pups on the winter ice-field. Turkmenistan. Azerbaijan. Iran. Almost all Caspian seal pups are born - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Photo: Brian Black

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Ice edge forms

Seals breed on the ice

In late Autumn theseals head north to have their pups on the winter ice-field

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Photo: Sue Wilson

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photo: Pavel Erokhin

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How many seals can you see ?1

23 4 5

6 7 89

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Photo: Ivar Jüssi

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adult

pup mother

Photo: Sue Wilson

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mother

pup

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Pups follow their mothers......

Photos: Sue Wilson

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...and the mother often turns round to make sure her pup is following

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This fat pup can swim safely as soon as the ice melts

This mother will soon stoplooking after her pup.

Photos: Sue Wilson

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Ice melts

Seals swim away from thenorth east

When the ice melts in the spring, theseals head south again. They haul outon islands ( ) to moult

and start to feed in the deeper waters of themiddle and south Caspian.

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Photo: Pavel Erokhin

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Thanks to all colleagues in the CISS and Darwin project teams, to the Caspian Environment Programme (CEP) and Agip KCO

Thanks to Sue Wilson, Pavel Erokhin, Ivar Jüssi and Brian Black for Caspian seal images