the ribbon seals most defining feature, their stripes, take 4 years to develop!
here is a short timeline of their development 🦭
adorable white coat ribbon seal pups. this baby fur is called lanugo.
after around 1 month pups will start shedding their baby fur to reveal a grey and silver coat
young seals with their grey and silver coat
then, the juvenile seals with start to develop their stripes over the next 3 years. they grow stronger with each moult, females can reach sexual maturity before they have fully developed stripes. this mothers stripes aren’t fully there yet.
once they’re 4 years old a ribbon seals stripes will have fully developed.
male and female are easy to tell apart by their coat colour, the males will have bold black and white stripes
whereas the females have more brown/beige/silver stripes
People complaining that the checks ruining the formatting of the website have forgotten their roots! This is the shitty formatting website and always has been
In retrospect this is almost definitely the reason why putting your response in the tags is so common and popular
Just want everyone to know that there is more footage of people crying in 160 episodes of Steven Universe than there is footage of Sakura and Sasuke interacting together in the entire 673 episode and 11 movie run of Naruto, and those two supposedly get married after that show.