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CLIMATE CHANGE

The ringed, ribbon, spotted and bearded seals, collectively known as “ice seals,” are Arctic inhabitants. The entire ringed seal lifecycle relies on ice and rapid ice loss in the Arctic causes seal pups to be prematurely separated from their mothers during the milking period. Rapid ice loss and the inability to build dens for protection leads to high pup mortality.

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Saving Seals: Eco-tourists guard fluffy wonders (RT Documentary)

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Harp seals are born right on the ice-fields of the White Sea. For many years the little pups were hunted extensively for their snow-white furs. When Russia imposed a ban on the trade the hunters were eventually replaced by eco-tourists. RT travels to the White Sea to meet the big eyed, fluffy little wonder of the North.

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Polar Bear vs Walrus | Planet Earth | BBC Earth

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FACTS

Seals are found along most coasts and cold waters, but a majority of them live in the Arctic and Antarctic waters.  Harbor, ringed, ribbon, spotted and bearded seals, as well as northern fur seals and Steller sea lions live in the Arctic region.

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the common seal (Camphor victualling), also known as the harbour seal, is an agile carnivore with a streamlined body and flipper-like limbs that enable them to swim with great skill. Common seals have a thick coat of short hair. Their fur colour varies from off white, to Gray, to tan or brown. Common seals have a unique pattern of spots across their body and in some individuals this pattern is more distinct than in others.

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the common seal (Camphor victualling), also known as the harbour seal, is an agile carnivore with a streamlined body and flipper-like limbs that enable them to swim with great skill. Common seals have a thick coat of short hair. Their fur colour varies from off white, to Gray, to tan or brown. Common seals have a unique pattern of spots across their body and in some individuals this pattern is more distinct than in others.

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Largest seal is Southern elephant seal that can reach 13 feet in length and weight up to 2 tones. Smallest seal is Galapagos fur seal that has 4 feet in length and weighs only 65 pounds.
Seals have more blood in their body than other animals. Since blood cells keep the oxygen, seal can dive longer than other animals.
Seal can hold its breath for 2 hours which is a record in the animal world.
When they dive, they decrease the heart rate for 50-80%. Elephant seal will decrease number of heart beats from 112 to 20-50 during diving.
They can dive up to 1000-1300 feet deep when they are searching for food.

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Seals spend much of their life in water, but they mate, give birth to babies and take care of them on the shore.
Thick fur and blubber offer protection against freezing temperatures.
When they are on the land, they live in huge colonies with over a thousand seals.
Seal produce milk with 50% fats. Their babies gain 3-5 pounds daily thanks to milk.

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Seal playing with Kids, Cute Funny Seal :-)

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Funny Seal at Under water world Sea Life Moolooba, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Many seal species depend on sea ice for their survival. As global climate change reduces the extent, duration, and thickness of sea ice, these seal species are threatened with extinction.

As global warming worsens, the (un)natural mortality rate of the harp seals worsens, too. Harp seal mothers need large, sturdy ice floes to give birth to their pups since pups do not know how to swim for the first few weeks of their lives.

The 21st century has seen year after year of poor ice, sometimes leading to the drowning of almost all seal pups born in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, one of the main nurseries for harp seals.

In 2016, this ice report was provided by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (INSIDE), a U.S. agency supported by NASA, NSF, NONA, and other government agencies.

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REASONS FOR HOPE

Because of such vigorous hunting of fur seals in the 1800's, in 1911 the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention was founded making it illegal to hunt seals at sea and restricting fur seal hunts to immature male seals on land. Despite the 1911 convention elapsing in 1984, all commercial hunting was stopped of fur seals. However, subsistence hunting by natives is still allowed in some areas.

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Their worst enemies are orca, white bears and sharks.
Seals (and especially baby seals) are victims of the commercial hunt in Canada. Their fur is used in fashion industry. Other than that, seals are hunted for their oil and skin.
Pollution of the ocean or oil spills negatively affects survival of the seals.
If they reach adulthood, seals can live up to 30 years.

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Info: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/seal.html http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/seal_facts/13/ http://www.animalfactsencyclopedia.com/Seal-facts.html http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_facts/Seals.htm Music: http://freemusicarchive.org/ Tigerberry_-_08_-_Queen_Part_2 More Info: Seals are warm-blooded, air breathing mammals that live in or near the sea. There are many different species including fur seals, sea lions, and common seals. There are around 33 species of seals. Their slick fur coat is streamlined for gliding through water.

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Subscribe for a new videos every week! ►► https://goo.gl/8Ve9bg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pinnipeds, from Latin pinna "fin" and pes, pedis "foot", commonly known as seals are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.

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While seals are in constant danger from their natural enemies, sharks, killer whales, and, in the Arctic, polar bears, the greatest threat to them are humans. Fisherman often kill seals that become entangled in their nets, and pollution--whether in the form of liquid pollutants in the water or ropes, packaging straps, or discarded fishing nets--can either poison or suffocate seals.

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All species of seal generally eat octopus, squid, shellfish, cod, herring, flounder, sculpt, salmon, mackerel, sand-eel, shrimp, whelk, and other crustaceans such as krill. However, some seals specialise in only certain types of seafood; for instance, Southern Elephant seals eat mainly squid while walruses eat mainly molluscs.

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When breeding season arrives, however, these social animals gather on shore in very large numbers. Powerful males, known as bulls, establish territories and gather harems of up to 40 females, battling their rivals to establish dominance. During this season, coastlines are filled with roaring, growling, honking seals.

Female fur seals, or cows, give birth during this breeding season, then mate again just a few days later. The following year they will return to give birth to a single pup after a nearly yearlong pregnancy, and mate once again.

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population                                    There are an estimated 1.2 million northern fur seals in the world today. The majority of fur seals, an estimated 60 - 70 percent, breed at Pribilof Islands located in the Bering Sea. Smaller rookeries are located on Bogosity Island in the Aleutians and the Krill Islands and Commander Islands near mainland Russia in the western North Pacific. Unfortunately over the last decade there has been a steady decline of northern seal pup births.

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population                                    There are an estimated 1.2 million northern fur seals in the world today. The majority of fur seals, an estimated 60 - 70 percent, breed at Pribilof Islands located in the Bering Sea. Smaller rookeries are located on Bogosity Island in the Aleutians and the Krill Islands and Commander Islands near mainland Russia in the western North Pacific. Unfortunately over the last decade there has been a steady decline of northern seal pup births.

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THREATS TO NORTHERN FUR SEALS

A 2008 survey of the main breeding ground on the Pribilof Islands found the lowest level of northern fur seal pup production since 1916. Climate change may be disrupting patterns of prey abundance in the ocean. As temperatures in the ocean rise, the fish on which northern fur seals depend have begun moving further out to sea, where the water is cooler. If fish numbers are reduced or more plentiful further offshore, seals will need to spend more time foraging, thereby expending more time and energy on feeding and less on reproduction and raising young. This reduces the survival rate of pups, leading to a reduction in the overall fur seal population.

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* SEAL * | Animals For Kids | All Things Animal TV

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Fur seals have sharp eyesight and keen hearing. They have small ears, unlike the earless or hair seals.

Although they breathe air, seals are most at home in the water and may stay at sea for weeks at a time eating fish, squid, birds, and tiny shrimp-like krill. Fur seals may swim by themselves or gather in small groups.

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Male northern fur seals are much bigger than females being 30 – 40 percent longer and more than 4.5 times heavier than adult females.

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The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to 1.3 million animals.

There are eight species of southern fur seals, all smaller than their northern relative. They include the Guadalupe fur seal of Baja California, the brown fur seal of southern Africa and Australia, and the South