A grey seal with an adorable little face and big eyes peers out of the water at the people at L'Oceanografic in Valencia, Spain in Europe. Seals are one of the many different marine mammals that have homes at L'Oceanografic in Valencia, Spain.When a grey seal is born it usually weighs approximately 16 kg and is covered in white fur which sheds very quickly.
They grow extremely fast feeding from their mother and you can soon tell the sex of these cute little mammals by the patterns and colorings on their bodies and the shapes of their noses. A grey seal usually lives between 15 to 25 years but there has been a case of a seal living to be 46 years old.
L'Oceanografic in Valencia, Spain gives you the perfect opportunity to view a grey seal and see the lifestyle it leads.
Grey Seal, Halichoerus grypus, at L'Oceanographic in the La Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciencies Complex, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, The City of the Arts and Science, in the City of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Europe.
Technical Information:
I photographed this photo with the digital SLR camera model Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, aperture of f/6.3, exposure time of 1/400 sec. on ISO 200, as always I used a original Canon Lens, the focus lenght for this picture was 375mm.