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Seals and Sea Lions
Seals and sea lions are Pinnipeds or fin-footed marine mammals. Earless seals that lack ear flaps are true seals, while eared seals are sea lions. These mammals can spend their life on water and partly on land.
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Are California sea lions predator or prey?
In California great white sharks are the otters predator but in Alaska killer whales seem to be eating them.
What is a good female seal name?
Sugar
Silk
Samantha
Bella
Queen
Hailey
Kara
Lois
Cloe
flap
flip
Bailey
Joanie
babe
buttercup
cupcake
lollypop
Why do seals have a thick layer of fur?
For insulation, to keep their body temperature constant. Seals are warm-blooded animals and need their thick layers of blubber to keep them warm in the extremely cold and hostile environments in which they live. Their fat store also helps to act as a source of built-in food supply during periods when they have to go without food, i.e. when fish is scarce, or they have to prioritise avoiding predators above hunting.
What are a sea lions special characteristics?
Sea Lions are classified as aquatic mammals.
· Sea Lions live in the Atlantic and Pacific ocean zones.
· Sea Lions are eatin by Whales and Sharks
· What Sea Lions eat are herring, pacific whiting, rock fish, hake, salmon, and squid.
· The typical life span of a Sea Lion is 20 to 30 years.
How do harp seals interact with people?
Harp seals are very sociable and friendly. If you try to hurt its baby though it might bark at you. Becaus they love there babys.
Where is the white seal's habitat?
How do sea lions breathe under water?
They don't breathe under water, certainly not like fish do. When they dive they hold their breath, just like whales and dolphins do when they dive. They close their nostrils as they dive to prevent water from coming into their lungs, just as whales/dolphins close their blow-holes before they dive or submerge themselves in the water.
How do elephant seals catch their prey?
They swim after it, as other seals do. They are highly maneuverable in the water.
Do seals live in Antarctica all year round?
All year round. the leopard seal stay within the antarctic regions all year round feeding on penguins, fish and other sea birds.
What type of home do harp seals build and live in?
Harp seals spend most of their life in the water. They do not build homes on land. The females come on land to have their babies. The females all come together so that the babies are all close together. This helps the babies to stay warm.
- yes they do a seal is meat
- and a lion is a carnivore
lions are indigenous to Africa - there are no seals in Africa
A lion might eat a seal if fed one in a zoo.
What does a seal have fur feathers or skin?
This question needs to be rephrased, before someone from the WikiAnswers community can be able to answer it.
What does a gray seal look like?
Grey seals tend to be friendlier than other breeds, if you have reared one since a pup then they will be very docile. but i wouldn't recomend one as a pet!
There are 33 species of seal world-wide, two of which live around Britain.
Scotland is an important breeding area for grey seals.
The grey seal population is estimated to be increasing by seven per cent a year.
Neither grey seals nor common seals are an endangered species.
Grey seals are larger than common seals, and have a distinctive profile.
Unlike whales and dolphins, seals give birth on land.
Seals are insulated from the cold by a thick layer of blubber.
Grey seals mate on land, but common seals usually mate in water.
Seals have sensitive whiskers that help them to detect prey in murky waters.
As soon as a pup is born, its mother forms a bond with it by smelling and calling to it.
Grey seals have been known to live for 46 years.
Some seal species have been hunted almost to extinction in some parts of the world.
In 1988 phocine distemper virus killed about 33 per cent of all common seals in the North Sea.
Oil spills are thought to cause breathing problems in seals, as well as damage to ears, nose and throat.
Seals are wild animals if approached too closely they will bite.
How long has the harp seal been endangered?
Harp Seals have never been endangered there number is increasing more each year.
Seals eat mostly fish, but they also eat asp, shrimp, crab and some crustations. Hope that helps!
What is a seal's kingdom called?
pinniped. wiki has it. national geographic did quite an extensive article on them a few years ago. research. fact; they are birds.
