Photo: Pavel Erokhin

Photo: Pavel Erokhin

Photo: Sue Wilson

Photo: Sue Wilson

Photo: Pavel Erokhin

Photo: Sue Wilson

tracks of adult seals going in and out of ice hole

So this pup doesn’t go throughthe hole into the water

Photo: Sue Wilson

Photo: Sue Wilson

Photo: Pavel Erokhin

Thanks to all colleagues in the CISS and Darwin project teams, to the Caspian Environment Programme (CEP) and Agip KCO

Thanks to Sue Wilson and Pavel Erokhin for Caspian seal pup images