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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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Yes, although make sure to remove all trace of blubber, otherwisw the meat will taste strongly of fish oil.
Unsure about the liver. Do anyone know if it is dangerous in the same way as polar bear liver?
What is the difference between a leopard seal and a seal?
leopard seals have spots like a leopard and a seal is just gray
Are there any sharks in the british seas?
Yes there are. White, blue and mako sharks are summer visitors while threshers, baskers and porbeagle are resident.
Is this a joke? Well with their flippers fins or hands whatever they are called!
What family are sea lions part of?
Sea lions are part of the Otariidae family, and the Otariinae sub-family. They are also classified as part of the Pinnipedia superfamily, and are often described as pinnipeds.
What are different species of seals please show list?
List of seal species:
Hawaiian monk seal
Elephant seals
Ringed seals
Ribbon seal
Baikal seal
Harp seals
Hooded seals
Spotted seals
Crabeater seals
Leopard seals
Ross seals
Weddell seals
Harbor seals
Northern elephant seals
Southern elephant seals
Gray seals
Caspian seals
Bearded seals
Mediterranean monk seals
Antarctic ice seals
Arctic ice seals
Fur seals
What is a Colony or breeding ground for penguins or seals?
Penguins nest in groups called rookeries. Some of these rookeries can have over a million birds! A group of penguins on land is called a waddle. A group of penguins in the water is called a raft. Sometimes the penguin chicks in a colony stay together in a large group called a creche.
What country can you see a seal?
Seals can live in oceans as well as freshwater lakes, such as the Lake Baikal in Russia. However, most seals live in and around Antarctica and the Arctic Circle. Antarctica is so cold that it has no permanent land mammals, but six species of seals have found ways to live in the Antarctic Ocean. Many seals live in locations that are hard for humans to reach, such as Antarctica and the Arctic.
How does the elephant seal defend itself?
Leopard Seals, mainly protect themselves is by camouflaging. Their only known predator is the killer whale.
No seals live at the South Pole, because seals are sea mammals and make their homes in sea water.
Around Antarctica's beaches, you can find Weddell seals and Leopard seals during breeding seasons, because there are no land predators to harm their pups.
The South Pole is more than 750 miles from any beach, and its elevation is nearly two miles thick of ice.
yes seals have a definite backbone and are classified as vetebrates
What is the lifecycle of a elephant seal?
Well, I think it's when the chubby little (big) ELEPHANT SEALS go to mate, they make pups/whelps. So then they grow up and mate, and have babies and ALL OVER AGAIN.
How many seals are killed in a day?
None. Its been illegal to kill baby seals (With white coat) for over 20 years in Canada
Is the leopard seal endangered if so is it protected?
because people throw rubbish in the sea which pollutes the leopard seals
a fur seal is a type of seal. Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds in the Otariidae family The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia. All true seals are members of the family Phocidae. They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from the fur seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae. Seals live in the oceans of both hemispheres and are mostly confined to polar, sub-polar, and temperate climates, with the exception of the more tropical monk seals. - Wikipedia
What does a sea lion feel like?
I Think I've felt A California Sea Lion It Has Hairy Skin they feel Alittle Bit Furry.And There Flippers Feels Smooth And Rubbery
Yes! Sea Lions do have whiskers. If you see them at the ZOO and look in the tanks you will see long, straight, whiskers.
