Cute Baikal seal's puppy on Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia.
The Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica), found throughout Lake Baikal, in Southern Siberia, is a species of earless seals is one of the smallest true seals (with weight of 89 kg and 1.3 m lenght), entirely freshwater seal populations in the world.
Lake Baikal is home to 80,000 seals. The Baikal seals spend their days in the water in pursuit of delicious fish, resting on rocks warmed by the sun and in winter taking shelter in breathing holes in the three-foot-thick ice that coats the lake.
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