BBC Wildlife Magazine

PUPPY LOVE

GREY SEAL PUPPING

WHILE THE WHISKERY FACE OF A GREY seal popping out of our coastal waters will always remain a delight to spot, in no way could this fleeting view be labelled a ‘spectacle’. For the real seal deal you should instead head to a select number of beaches around our coastline, which at this time of year play host to an astonishing annual fiesta of synchronised pupping, before the boorish bulls then gate-crash the party with just one thing on their minds: mating again.

One of just two pinnipeds breeding along our coastline, the other being the

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