Seal Pups Growing Up
In Seal Pups Growing Up, narrator Gordon Buchanan teaches about young seal pups growing up near the South Atlantic Ocean. The pups, whose mothers often leave them for several days on fishing expeditions, stay together like a big family and are watched by other adult seals, but sometimes they face challenges. This video is excerpted from BBC's Animal Babies, a heartwarming show that follows the first breaths, first steps and first feeds of some adorable baby animals, revealing the challenges they face to survive in some of the toughest but most beautiful places on the planet.
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Q: What important thing takes place when seal pups are about two weeks old?
A: The seal mother leaves the pups to go on a hunt for fish that can last five days.
Q: What danger can the seal pups possibly face while on the beach?
A: Individual pups can wander off and face danger from large petrels.
Q: Once they’re grown up, what will the seal pups have to do?
A: They’ll have to leave the land and face the cold waters of the South Atlantic.
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