- SEA LIFE, Seal Harbour
Common Seals
Also known as harbour seals, common seals are characteristic of sandflats and estuaries. The Wash of East Anglia is home to the UK’s largest colony, although they are also found on rocky shores in Scotland.
Resident Seals
Our resident Common Seals at Weymouth SEA LIFE Adventure Park are fun and friendly creatures and love to target feed with their keeper. They especially enjoy jumping onto the rocks from the water!
Meet Luna, Sija and Tyne!
- Watch our girls enjoy their favourite foods at meal times, herring is the favourite but they also get fed sprat occasionally
- During feeding times they all have a specific location to be fed except Sija who likes to have a choice of two rocks!
- The Animal Care Team carry out daily enrichment and training sessions with the seals, all of the activities they do help us care for them, for example waving a flipper means the team can check there's no injuries and the seals have full mobility.
- Tyne is the 'chattiest' of our seals and is quick to let the team know if they're taking too long to feed her!
Did you know?
- Seals can hold their breath for up to 30 minutes and dive to depths of over 70 metres!
- Oil from Seal blubber was once used for making soap and paint
- There are 35 different seal species worldwide. The rarest is the Mediterranean Monk Seal with fewer than 500 individuals remaining
