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Seal Facts - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate families—phocidae, otaridae, and odobenidae—that are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land
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Edge of the Arctic Shelf - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The ringed seal (Phoca hispida) is the smallest arctic seal, and most common They feed on shrimp, krill, and other small crustaceans The harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) is a deeper diving seal which feeds on small fish Juvenile harp seals are prized for their coat, which has led to bitter enmity between sealers and environmentalists
The Arctic Ocean Ecosystem - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The bearded seal (Erignathis barbatus) is the largest Arctic seal, and bears the closest similarity to walrus The ringed seal (Phoc hispida) is the smallest artic seal, and most common They feed on shrimp, krill, and other small crustaceans The harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) is a deeper diving seal which feeds on small fish
ecol_86_1211. 2874_2880. tp - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The male gray seal data set represents a case of nu-merous dubious observations, some clearly extreme and others less so (Fig 2A, open circles) The female data set represents a combination of both complex be-havior and numerous extreme observations (Fig 2B)
Studying how seals adapt to extreme environments could lead to benefits . . . A female grey seal nursing her pup on the beaches of Sable Island, Nova Scotia Gray seals give birth once a year and females will quickly lose ~30% of their body mass while the pup triples in size during a short nursing period of only 15-20 days
Seals and Wild Horses on Sable Island, Nova Scotia How far can a seal pup travel on its own in a month? Thanks to a satellite tag, WHOI biologist Michelle Shero can now answer that question: over 500 miles! After some intense fieldwork on the barrier beach of Sable Island, Nova Scotia over the 2023-24 winter, Shero tracked tagged gray seal pups from the comfort of her lab at WHOI on Cape Cod
SharkCam - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Here, a grey seal displays a battle scar from a shark encounter (Big Wave Production) Local seals were once hunted down to near extinction, mostly because they competed with fishermen for fish But the seal population has rebounded since they began to receive greater legal protection