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	SEAL - LoveToKnow Article on SEAL
		The movements of the true seals upon the ground or ice are very different from those of the eared seals, or Otariidae, which walk and run upon all four feet, the body being raised as in the case of ordinary quadrupeds.
		Although the true seals do not possess the beautiful under-fur (seal-skin of the furriers) which makes the skin of the sea-bears or fur-seals so precious, their hides are still valuable as articles of commerce, and together with the oil yielded by their fat, subject them to a devastating persecution.
		Other species of seals inhabiting the nothern seas, of which stragglers have occasionally visited the British coasts, are the small ringed seal or floe-rat of the sealers (Phoca hispida), the Greenland or harp-seal (Phoca groenlandica), the hooded or bladder-nosed seal (Cystophora cristata) and the bearded seal (Phoca barbata).
	60.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEAL.htm (1343 words)

	Earless seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia.
		It should be noted that the common seal (harbor seal in the U.S.), Phoca vitulina, does not separate foraging and maternal investment; instead, it displays a reproductive strategy similar to those of otariids, in which the mother makes short foraging trips between nursing bouts.
		This allows the mother seal to maximize the efficiency of her energy transfer to the pup and then quickly return to sea to replenish her reserves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earless_seal (777 words)

	SCS: Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus)
		The effects of natural events and human-caused activities on the abundance of bearded seals are however difficult to determine due to the lack of accurate population data and the difficulty of counting the species.
		Bearded seal pups can swim very shortly after they are born, and at less than a week old have been recorded diving for more than 5 minutes to as deep as 75m.
		Bearded seal diet is varied but consists mainly of decapod crustaceans (such as shrimps and crabs), and molluscs (such as clams and whelks).
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/bearded.htm (1134 words)

	MSN Encarta - Seal (mammal)
		While the limbs of seals have developed into flippers, the tail has practically disappeared, making seals different from other marine mammals, such as whales, dugongs, and manatees, which have lost their hind legs and use their powerful tails for swimming.
		Seal muscles also store oxygen, and the spleen, an organ that stores oxygen-rich blood, is exceptionally large in seals, serving as a kind of biological scuba tank.
		The Baikal seal inhabits Lake Baikal in southern Russia, believed to be the deepest lake in the world, and the Caspian seal lives in the vast Caspian Sea in southwestern Asia.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761564979 (1503 words)

	Bearded Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Bearded Seal is the largest of the phocis seals in the area.
		Bearded Seals feed mainly on animals that live in or near the bottom of the fjords, like fish, shellfish, snails, squid, crabs and shrimps.
		Bearded Seals are mostly found in the fjords in Spitsbergen, or on sea ice in the north and east.
	www.natureview.nl /spits/animals/bearded_seal.htm (396 words)

	title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The bearded seal is circumpolar in its distribution in arctic and subarctic waters.
		Bearded seals are solitary and inhabit areas of relatively shallow water and moving ice.
		Bearded seals have a large, body with a disproportionately small head and square fore flippers.
	www.pagophilus.org /bearded.html (278 words)

	Species Reports Ringed Seal, Bearded Seal
		In late summer, ringed seals tend to form large, loose feeding aggregations, and coastal waters offshore of the Yukon appear to be an important area for ringed seals to feed on dense concentrations of zooplankton such as mysids.
		Ringed or bearded seals could be disturbed by a variety of industrial activities, but in terms of survival and reproduction of the regional populations, the effects are likely to be inconsequential as the stocks are very large and widespread.
		Bearded seal pups are born on the transition zone ice and spend two to three days with their mother before they are independent.
	www.taiga.net /wmac/consandmanagementplan_volume3/seal.html (768 words)

	NatureWorks - Bearded Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The bearded seal is a large seal that is 7-8 feet in length It is at its heaviest in heaviest during winter and early spring when it can weigh as much as 750 pounds.
		The bearded seal has gray to brown fur and squared-off front flippers with strong claws that it uses to open breathing holes in the ice.
		The bearded seal is found in northern coastal waters and shallow seas from Alaska to Labrador, Canada.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/beardedseal.htm (330 words)

	Bearded Seal: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		Bearded seals normally have 34 teeth—six incisors on the upper jaw and four on the lower, two canines upper and lower, eight postcanines on upper and eight lower, and two molars on the upper and two on the lower jaw.
		Polar bears do eat bearded seals, but the number of bears present in central Bering Sea is relatively small, while the incidence of adults with fresh scars during the spring is high.
		Bearded seal meat is the most desirable of the seals, and the hides are necessary for boat covers, raw-hide line, boot soles, and numerous other uses.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/marine/brd-seal.php (1157 words)

	WhaleTimes Fishin' for Facts~bearded seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals are found in arctic and subarctic waters.
		Bearded seals can be gray to dark brown.
		From late fall to the early spring the bearded seals are their fattest.
	www.whaletimes.org /beardedseal.htm (347 words)

	NWT Wildlife and Fisheries - NWT Wildlife Species - Seals Bearded Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The bearded seal is one of the largest seals found in the waters of the Northwest Territories.
		The bearded seal diet consists of bottom-dwelling organisms found in the shallower waters of the continental shelf.
		A single pup is born on the ice at the end of April to early May. Bearded seals are the only northern seal with four mammae rather than two.
	www.nwtwildlife.rwed.gov.nt.ca /NWTwildlife/seals/beardedseal.htm (474 words)

	Marine Mammals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals are one of the largest seals in Arctic waters, averaging 2.5 meters in length and 270 kg in weight.
		Bearded seals spend most of their time in shallow water where they feed on crustacea, mollusks and bottom-feeding fish.
		They are the smallest of the seal family and average 68 kg in weight and are less than 1.5 m in length.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/arctic/marinema.htm (811 words)

	Ch19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To distinguish harp seals from the 5 other phocids that share their range (harbour, ringed, gray, bearded, and hooded seals), note overall body size; size and shape of the head, muzzle, and nose; details of pelage markings (e.g., spots, rings, or blotches); and base colour (uniform or contrasting from top to bottom).
		Harp seals feed on a variety of crustaceans and open-water fishes during migration, and switch to several varieties of bottom dwelling fishes in summer on the northern grounds.
		Bearded seals are exceptionally wary and always haul out with their head very close to the water at an ice edge or breathing hole.
	www.fao.org /docrep/T0725E/t0725e0j.htm (5156 words)

	Seals in Newfoundland and Labrador
		Except for the grey and harbour seals, seals in Newfoundland and Labrador migrate from Arctic waters on southward moving pack ice in early spring.
		The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) is not common but may be seen around the tip of the northern peninsula.
		The ringed seal (Phoca hispida hispida) is the smallest seal common to the island.
	www.newfoundlandwhales.net /seals.htm (574 words)

	National Marine Mammal Lab Quartery Rpt for Jan-March 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals were generally more abundant farther from shore, with the exception of the high densities observed south of Kivalina; ringed seal densities decreased as distance from shore increased.
		A minimum of 55,220 ringed seals and 2,430 bearded seals were estimated to utilize ice habitats in the vicinity of the Portsite survey area during May-June 2000.
		The ringed seal sample contained fish otoliths (Arctic cod, flatfish and sculpin) in the stomach, and shrimp and gammarid amphipods in the colon (the amphipods may have been present as a result of prey initially eaten by the fish).
	www.afsc.noaa.gov /Quarterly/jfm2001/rptNMML_jfm01.htm (2277 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Taking of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; On- Ice Seismic Operations in the ...
		Early estimates of bearded seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas range from 250,000 to 300,000 (Papov 1976, Burns 1981).
		Given those considerations, combined with the small proportion of the population potentially disturbed by the proposed activity, impacts are expected to be negligible for the ringed and bearded seal populations.
		Consequently, no significant effects on individual bearded seals or their population are expected, and the number of individuals that might be temporarily disturbed would be very low.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2004/January/Day-26/i1569.htm (3475 words)

	Bearded Seal
		A Bearded Seal, Erignathus barbatus, was found near Leenane (the entrance is Killary harbour), in south County Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland.
		Of the two species of seals resident in British waters it is the Common Seal that has the longest whiskers and the one that be most likely mistaken for a Bearded Seal, if was not for the overall size.
		The Bearded Seal was first discovered at Walls on the west coast of the Shetland mainland in June 1956 whilst I was awaiting the little boat to come across to take us to the remotest inhabited island in Britain called Foula, which is located over 20 miles to the west of Lerwick (on the Mainland).
	www.glaucus.org.uk /Bearded.htm (1040 words)

	Native Village of Kotzebue Alaska, Kotzebue IRA, Current Projects, Qikiktagruk
		Bearded seals were identified as the highest priority for research at a July 2003 meeting of Alaska Native resource managers, scientists and state and federal agencies to discuss ice seal conservation and management.
		Because bearded seals are such an important subsistence species and are hunted in so many communities throughout Alaska, it is essential to learn about their distribution, movements, stock identity, population status and natural history.
		Bearded seals are the most important marine mammal subsistence species for hunters in Kotzebue Sound and they are harvested extensively in spring on the pack ice and fall in open water and as freeze-up approaches.
	kotzebueira.org /current_projects.html (3673 words)

	Marine Mammals - Bearded Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There are thought to be approximately 100,000 of these seals across the Canadian Arctic, living year-round on the edge of the coastal ice and moving seawards in the winter.
		Bearded seals are found along the continental shelf in areas of high benthic productivity.
		Bearded seal pups are born in early May on the ice.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpl/organisms/mammals/Marine/bearded.htm (214 words)

	Bearded seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals are large and burly (2.5 m, 262 to 361 kg).
		The pups have long, dark, woolly fur and are born in the spring on floating or static ice floes.
		Bearded seals have always been hunted by the local population, who use them to provide for their everyday needs.
	www.zeehondencreche.nl /english/seals/types/bearded.htm (131 words)

	Bearded Seal: Marine Mammals: Audio Gallery for Discovery of Sound in the Sea
		Bearded seals are cold water seals that live in the circumpolar regions of the northern hemisphere.
		Bearded seals can also be identified by their square shaped front flippers.
		Bearded seals breed in the water, and the long trilling songs of the males are thought to advertise their breeding condition to nearby females.
	www.dosits.org /gallery/marinemm/27.htm (485 words)

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		Most male bearded seals become sexually mature, as indicated by testes and baculum size and by the onset of spermatogenic activity, at ages six to seven.
		The diurnal haulout cycle of bearded seals during the spring survey period should be investigated using radiotelemetry.
		The ratios of seals on the ice to seals in the water at peak haulout hours and other times should be determined and applied as corrections to surveys flown over the course of several hours.
	fwie.fw.vt.edu /WWW/macsis/lists/M120103.htm (1556 words)

	Seals (BMLSS Information) (sea mammals)
		Seals are a rare sight off the mid-Sussex coast, but a few have been seen off Shoreham beach before.
		The seal swam at the surface and dived on occasions and appeared to be in good health.They have been seen as occasional vagrants before, notably off Shoreham a few miles to the west.
		Individual species of Seals and Sea Lions are not featured on their own pages, but the Index chapter gives the common and scientific names, general distribution details, brief details of their diet, length and average weight, and the estimated world population.
	www.glaucus.org.uk /seals1.htm (3348 words)

	Stories and Information from the Seal Mask
		The bearded seal that had turned into a human being is called a qununiq.
		It is said that when it came up for the first time, it would have a bearded seal face.
		It would become more of a bearded seal when it came up for the the third time.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/yupik_backup/lessons/ecology/seals.html (299 words)

	Other phocid seals
		The main threats are over-exploitation of the seal stocks and over-exploitation of the capelin and herring stocks.
		In the USSR a permit system is in effect, which allows the harvest of 3,000 ribbon seals in the Bering Sea and of 3,500 seals in the Sea of Okhotsk.
		Bearded seals are grey, with occasionally a brown face and neck.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/othphoca.htm (2370 words)

	Bearded Seal, Erignathus barbatus @ MarineBio.org
		Bearded seals prefer areas of broken pack ice and drifting ice floes, but they are also found on shorefast and thick ice where they are able to maintain breathing holes.
		When hauled out on an ice floe, Bearded seals are seen at the edge of the floe pointing their head downwind toward the water so that they can move rapidly into the water as a protection against predators.
		Bearded seal pups are able to swim almost immediately, and have been observed diving as deep as 75 m for 5 minutes at less than one week old.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=268 (1243 words)

	Parasite-related lesions in a bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus -- Bishop 15 (2): 285 -- Journal of Wildlife Diseases
		Parasite-related lesions in a bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus -- Bishop 15 (2): 285 -- Journal of Wildlife Diseases
		Parasite-related lesions in a bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus
		A free-ranging adult male bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) killed by polar bears was salvaged and examined at necropsy.
	www.jwildlifedis.org /cgi/content/abstract/15/2/285 (134 words)

	Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals lay on the edge of the ice looking downward into the water.
		Bearded seals are solitary creatures and can be seen resting on ice flows with their heads facing downward into the water.
		Bearded seals have fur that is generally gray to brown and unpatterned.
	nmml.afsc.noaa.gov /education/pinnipeds/bearded.htm (294 words)

	Quarterly research reports for National Marine Mammal Lab, October-December 2004, page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals are an important Alaska Native subsistence resource.
		This project was designed as a cooperative effort between biologists and local Kotzebue-area hunters, and it is intended to combine local knowledge about the distribution and habits of bearded seals with the field techniques and analysis expertise of biologists.
		Each seal tended to remain in a small area, presumably foraging, for a number of days (i.e., 318), before moving to a new location, often more than 150 km away.
	www.afsc.noaa.gov /quarterly/ond2004/divrptsNMML2.htm (701 words)

	BEARDED SEALS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Bearded seals are found throughout the Artic region.
		Adult Beared seals are grayish-brown, and pups are grayish-brown with white patches on the back and head.
		A more detailed taxonomical classification of Bearded seals is given at the bottom.
	www.il-st-acad-sci.org /mammals/seal1001.html (81 words)

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