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- Saturday Night's Spring Ringed Seal-NN SpecialWith Your Hosts: Sam and Susie
- Good evening everyone! Thank you for joining us on tonight's Spring Seal-NN special!
- Stealing the spotlight tonight: seriously scary climate changes, seal predator scares, and the lighter topic of steals of the season. Let's dive in!
- Pregnant seals have been spotted swimming near one of the last standing ice structures. Birthing season has started, so be sure to claim your ice pack now!
- Arctic Basin St.
- Be sure to check out our striking website for supportive suggestions to spice-up your nursing lair and construct a superior space to escape predators, molt, nurse your pups and sleep!
- Sea ice has become super difficult to spot. Some seals have started staying on rocks to rest and to shed their epidermal skin. Stay cautious of those killer whales!
- Since sea ice is mostly melted in the summer and spring, seals are strenuously searching for new food sources. Ice-edges and glacier fronts are gone and so are the surges of scrumptious phytoplankton.
- Seen on the left side is thick sea ice and snow that was superabundant in the 1980s. A seal is seen scooping out an ice lair, while predator polar bears and arctic foxes stare. Sadly, we don't see sturdy ice like this these days.
- The Arctic Basin in 1980
- Seen on the right are swimming seals searching for shrimp, fish, and a sweet spot to raise their pups. Seals in the 1980s spent 3x as long in ice-surrounded spaces than spaces short on ice. Studies show that by 2030, sea ice in the Arctic Basin may cease to exist each summer.
- Hey Susie, want to talk about global warming? It's a real icebreaker! In all sealiousness, the Arctic Basin is sweating. Seal pup weaning is less successful and sea ice is shallower than ever, causing seals to deliver pups directly on the ice surface which increases pup mortality.
- Suspects such as industrialization and sizzling fossil fuels have supplied startling sums of Greenhouse gasses to our atmosphere. Suitable seal habitat space, resources, and reproduction has decreased, while scavenging efforts and intra-species competition has sky-rocketed.
- The future of seals is scary as rising atmospheric temperatures make sea ice more scarce. Scientists should search for solutions in subjects of seal adaptive behaviors, water mixing, and seal energy requirements. What factors stimulate summer ice melting?
- Seal's Steals of the Season!
- Could seals survive on land? Support pups in iceless seas? I, Sealvester Sealone, don't have the answers but we'll surely sea the impacts soon.
- I am so stoked to be on this episode of Seal-NN's Seal's Steals of the Season, endorsing two products to soothe the struggles caused by climate change. First is human ice cream to supplement your snowy lairs and stop softening in higher temperatures. The second is sunscreen to shelter your susceptible, post-molting skin in iceless seas.Stay cool and we'll seal you next time!
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