Talk:Grey Seal

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[edit] Change in breeding patterns

In the "Fact Files" special feature on the DVD The Blue Planet: Seas of Life: Tidal Seas/Coasts, it is said that:

"The North Atlantic grey seal has only recently turned to breeding on land, rather than ice... and the size difference between the sexes is far less extreme [than among elephant seals, who have been breeding on land far longer]. However, male grey seals are gradually becoming larger than their mates...."

This makes it sound like the change from ice- to land-based breeding might have happened very recently, as in less than a century — otherwise how would we know the males are getting bigger? (Fossils? Doesn't seem likely with this type of animal.) Does anyone have any more specific information about this? - dcljr (talk) 23:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reversion by CarterBar`

CarterBar, I've reverted your edits to agree with the references given which state The eastern Atlantic population is found mostly around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as on the coasts of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, and northwestern Russia as far as the White Sea. Also, Shetland is considered part of Great Britain. --Bardcom (talk) 11:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)