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	Enviro Facts - The South African (Cape) Fur Seal
		The South African fur seal's range is restricted to islands and the mainland coast between the rich fishing grounds of northern Namibia and Algoa Bay on the south-eastern coast of South Africa.
		In southern Africa fur seal harvesting is one of the oldest of all commercial `fisheries'.
		The dramatic increase in the seal population in the second half of this century, and the major expansion of the fishing industry since the second world war, have led to inevitable conflict.
	www.deltaenviro.org.za /resources/envirofacts/seal.html (891 words)

	Fur Seals
		This fur seal is brown to dark grey in colour, with a yellow chest and throat area and a dark brown ventral.
		The subantarctic fur seal is predated upon by sharks and the killer whale.
		Fur seal milk is composed of 44% fat, 42% water and 14% protein by mass at the start of a suckling period.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/furseals.htm (4502 words)

	Toronto Zoo > Meet The Animals > Fact Sheet
		Fur seals are also called otaries or eared seals due to their external ear flaps.
		All fur seals are territorial and polygamous in the breeding season.
		Fur seals have delayed implantation (the blastocyst does not implant itself in the wall of the uterus until the following April or May), so birth is synchronized with the annual breeding season.
	www.torontozoo.com /Animals/details.asp?AnimalId=397 (1085 words)

	The S.A. Fur Seal
		Fur seals are so-named for their thick pelt, unlike true seals which have only a thin covering of hair.
		The seals' main food is fish, in fact, seals are the only animal that competes with the fishing industry for commercial fish.
		As a result, most fishermen hate seals, which they regard as robbing them of their livelihood, therefore many seals are shot illegally each year from fishing boats.
	www.botany.uwc.ac.za /EnvFacts/facts/seal.htm (879 words)

	Taxonomy Order
		The Cape fur seal inhabits the coasts of South Africa and Namibia.
		Cape fur seals are considered by some to compete with commercial fisheries for pilchard, anchovy and hake.
		Like the Cape fur seal, the Australian fur seal is considered a competitor by local fishermen and a significant number of them are killed each year in fishing traps and nets, and shot by fishermen.
	www.imma.org /pinnipeds/capefs.htm (439 words)

	Fur seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both the fur seals and the true seals are members of the Pinnipedia, which is usually regarded as a suborder of the order Carnivora but sometimes as an independent order.
		However, the fur seals, like their close relatives the sea lions, retain some ability to walk on land as their hind limbs can be brought forward under the body to bear the animal's weight, and retain small but visible external ears.
		The fur seals and the sea lions as a group make up the family Otariidae, and are called eared seals or walking seals to distinguish them from the earless true seals of the family Phocidae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fur_seal (183 words)

	Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) - seen on Southern Africa Safari, July 1999
		The 1998 quota was for 35,000 fur seal pups and 5,000 adult males to be killed between August and November, a total increase on the 1997 quota of 10,000 seals.
		In 1994 an estimated 200,000 seals unexpectedly died on the Namibian coast, almost certainly due to to malnutrition and starvation because of a scarcity of fish caused by environmental conditions.
		Fur seals are attracted to fish in static and, less commonly, trawl fishing nets and many are drowned in nets and traps or shot by fishermen and fish farmers.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~neils/africa/seal.htm (1698 words)

	Unnatural Stranding / Drowning of New-born Cape Fur Seal Pups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		By 1940, breeding herds of seals sought refuge elsewhere and the colonisation of the mainland by seals began.
		Seal Island in False Bay, is relatively new to breeding seals, as there is historical evidence of no seal breeding taking place on this rock in 1900.
		The fact, due to governments banishment from other larger islands, in fact all seal suitable breeding islands, together with the fact that this island in particular has become the largest unnatural offshore seal breeding colony in southern Africa, on just a rock measuring 2 ha, are the recipe for this annual re-occurring tragedy.
	www.oipa.org /appelli/seals_southafrica2.htm (1906 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		Foraging dives by lactating Australian fur seal females are usually to 65—85 m with a maximum of 164 m, and last 2—3.7 minutes with a maximum duration of 8.9 minutes.
		fur seals numbered approximately 1.7 —2 million animals in 1990, and the population was estimated to be increasing at a rate of 3% per year.
		fur seals are known to become entangled in marine debris such as packing bands, discarded lines and nets, and other material that can become a collar around an animal’s neck.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/180629 (2115 words)

	A De Beers Diamond is Forever, but for a Cape Fur Seal.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since the 1990's, 77% of the Cape Fur Seal pups are now born on the desert mainland's, and of these 74% of these seal pups are born within the restricted diamond mining license areas of South Africa and Namibia.
		The 2006 seal breeding season is expected to suffer the worst case of mass starvation on record.
		In 1990 the Commission on Sealing advised the South African government that the Cape Fur Seal population living between Namibia and South Africa is one specie of seal, and recommended that the seal population be managed as one population for this region.
	www.sealalertsa.net /a_diamond.htm (525 words)

	Saving The Cape Fur Seal From Extinction Petition
		Cape Fur Seals, found nowhere else on earth, except around the tip of Africa, although millions of years old, have not evolved into “True Seals”, and as such, are required to spend up to 50\% of their time on dry-land, to rest, to warm themselves, to mate, to breed and to raise their young.
		In 1893, the then colonial government enacted legislation that would save the Cape Fur Seals from extinction, after nearly 500 years of commercial island sealing, in which millions upon millions of seals were clubbed to death.
		With Cape Fur Seals only currently being allowed to bred on 1\% of the smallest awash offshore rocks, their future is indeed bleak.
	www.petitiononline.com /RobbenSA/petition.html (669 words)

	A CAPE FUR SEAL, CALLED FLIPPER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He assisted in saving numerous seal lives by coming with me on countless rescues, and he loved our late sunset trips to the nearby offshore seal colony, this was our alone time together.
		He was just one of those special seals, who was so gentle he would not even harm a fly, even though life had thrown the worst at him, and I had seen him be abused time and time again by crayfish poachers and fishermen.
		When I received a Seal Rescue Call from a member of the public, a big seal is bleeding all over a pier very badly, and hour later still waiting for the tow truck another call came in, reporting the same.
	www.oipa.org /campagne/sealssa_flipper.htm (1105 words)

	SA_SealVersusSeabird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the time 75% of the seal population was breeding on two mainland seal colonies, divided between the diamond restricted area known as the Sperrgebiet and a nature reserve.
		Chief Namibian seal biologist, Dr Jean-Paul Roux wrote, "Both sexes and all age groups were affected, an estimated 300 000 seals died in 1994, nearly a third of the total population.
		The Namibian seal population is estimated to have been reduced by between one third and one half.
	www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org /SA_SealVersusSeabird.html (816 words)

	Resources on Cape Fur Seal academic institutions
		Occurrence of Taenia solium in a Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus...
		Assessment of northern fur seal entanglement in marine debris on the Pribilof...
		Seal, Fur, Pinnipedia, Otariidae, Callorhinus ursinus and Arctocephalus sp.
	mongabay.org /conservation/Cape_Fur_Seal.htm (2381 words)

	Namibian Cape Fur Seal Slaughter -- Harpseals.org
		Fur coats, gloves and handbags are made from the pelts, and seal oil and carcass meal.
		The Namibian seals have experienced three major mass die-off's from starvation in 1988, 1994 and 2000, mostly in the restricted area of Namibia, where one third to one half of the population was allowed to slowly starve to death.
		Seals are banned from most islands, and are forced to bred on the mainland, to make the killing of them easier.
	www.harpseals.org /helpstop/protest/cape_fur_seal_alert.html (2125 words)

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		The Cape fur seal is found along the coasts of South Africa and Namibia from Cape Cross, southward to the Cape Peninsula and eastward to Algoa Bay and Black Rocks, Cape Province, South Africa.
		Sealing restrictions were introduced to southern Africa in 1893 although none were introduced along the coast of Namibia until 1922.
		Fur seal pelts and penises (sold as aphrodisiacs in traditional Asian medicine) are traded by Namibia.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=26838 (689 words)

	DPIW - Australian Fur Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Australian fur seals breed on nine rocky Bass Strait islands, but because seals only come ashore to rest and breed, it is impossible to know exactly how many there are.
		Pup mortality for most fur seal species is between 3 to 30%, however, storm induced mortality can be as high as 70% for this species.
		Seal mortality also occurs as a result of human activities such as deliberate persecution through shooting, fisheries bycatch and entanglement in plastic, non-biodegradable materials.
	www.dpiw.tas.gov.au /inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-53K77E?open (645 words)

	Cape Fur Seal - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Cape Fur Seal, fur seal endemic to the western and southern coasts of southern Africa.
		Cape fur seals are chocolate-brown in colour, and have small...
		Seal (mammal), carnivorous marine mammal that has fins as feet.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Cape_Fur_Seal.html (113 words)

	Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - Seals Around the World - South Africa
		The Cape fur seal has been a protected species since 1973 under the Sea-bird and Seal Protection Act (Act 46 of 1973) but, ironically, this act was never written to protect them, instead its purpose was to control who killed them commercially.
		The South African Seals that have been in existence for five million years are slowly disappearing, from their offshore islands, and if the slaughter is not curbed soon, there will be no Fur seals - period.
		Francois Hugo is one such person whose profound love for the Cape fur seals manifests itself in a raging passion that fuels both his anger at the injustice done to the seals and his compassion to do all that he can to defend and protect the seals.
	www.seashepherd.org /seals/seals_around_the_world_south_africa.html (1179 words)

	Cape Cross - Activities
		Cape Cross was the first European contact in Southern Africa in the year 1485.
		The Seal Visit activity is for approximately 45 minutes and the cost includes the entrance fee.
		Experience the largest breeding Cape Fur Seal Colony and the petrified lagoon with unique salt crystal formations, which are over 400 years old.
	www.capecross.org /act.htm (897 words)

	!!!Help cape fur seals NEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Even the lengthening of the sealing season to July the 1st, where baby seals will now be clubbed to death one month earlier, has not had the desired effect in 2001, where sealers only harvested 34% of their 3 year rolling quota.
		Namibia's sealing industry is basically divided between two main concession holders, who harvest equally Cape Fur Seals within the diamond restricted area of the sperrgebiet and a nature reserve on the Namibian mainland, creating part-time employment for less than 160 workers.
		Cape Fur Seals have existed on the offshore islands along the coastline of southern Africa, for over 5 million years, and it is only through sealing on the islands in the past, which has caused this specie of seal to flee to the mainland, where today all commercial sealing is undertaken.
	www.actionagainstpoisoning.com /page154/page154.html (2856 words)

	Arctocephalus pusillus, South African/Australian Fur Seal at MarineBio.org
		The South African/Cape fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus, is found along the coast of Namibia on the African continent and along the western and southern coasts of South Africa.
		South African fur seals have been known to dive to over 400 m; Australian fur seals are known to dive to over 200 m.
		South African fur seals are preyed on by sharks and Orca (Killer whales).
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=266 (1227 words)

	Cape fur seals studied
		The electronic tags are attached harmlessly to the seals' fur and fall off when the seals molt or are removed by researchers.
		The Cape fur seal is currently one of the most abundant fur seals in the world.
		This is based on the idea that seals, as warm-blooded animals, have an internal body temperature higher than the temperature of their environment, and when they eat a fish that is the same temperature as the water their stomach temperature declines.
	currents.ucsc.edu /06-07/07-17/seals.asp (789 words)

	Seal Alert SA - News & Petitions
		Although commercial sealing of this species in its living breeding natural habitat - islands, has between 1486 and 1900, already driven this species close to extinction - and 98\% of its former breeding, birthing and nursing habitat remains extinct.
		The Cape Fur Seal has been a protected species since 1973 under the Sea-bird and Seal Protection Ace (Act 46 of 1973) but, ironically, this act was never written to protect them, instead its purpose was to control who killed them commercially.
		The South African Seals that have been in existence for five million years are slowly disappearing, from their offshore islands, and if the slaughter is not curbed soon, there will be no Fur Seals period.
	www.sealalert.org /news_en.htm (1619 words)

	SA_CapeFurSealFuture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This island the biggest and most important seal breeding colony in southern Africa, extinct to seals for over two hundred years, a protected island for seals and seabirds since 1973, a world heritage site since 1999, with protected seals still physically banned from re-colonising, and yet now they are shooting feral cats.
		This lead the Dutch years later, to take over the trade in seals, allowing it to develop, an economically viable replenishment station, and later a fort in 1652, a town, a city and the country it is today.
		I believe seals played an extremely important part in our history, and it is something I aim to correct, for they have even today, not been credited with.
	www.canadianvoiceforanimals.org /SA_CapeFurSealFuture.html (1829 words)

	The Living Edens "Namib" -- Teacher's Resources -- Mammals of Namib, Who's In Charge
		The Cape Fur Seal is a coastal inhabitant and found in great numbers on the Namib Coast.
		The fur seal has four flippers two on the side and two on the tail.
		The Cape Fur Seal is brown and newly born pups are fl.
	www.pbs.org /edens/namib/source8.htm (976 words)

	NamibWeb.com - The online guide to Namibia: Seal colony at Cape Cross
		The main attraction for tourists at Cape Cross is the seal colony and an interesting history of this place.
		Cape Cross did become an economic centre after all, because there were thousands of seals there, which were highly desired for their meat, fur and oil.
		The seal colony at Cape Cross is the breeding place of the Cape fur seals, which are actually a species of sea lion.
	www.namibweb.com /capecross.htm (1051 words)

	Cape Cross Fur Seal Colony, Namibia
		Nowadays, Cape Cross is well-known for its colony of Cape Fur Seals - the most easily accessible in Namibia.
		The 'cross' at Cape Cross is a replica of the one erected by Diego Cão in 1485, to mark his achievement in reaching such a southerly point of the western African coast.
		Cape Cross is easily accessed by driving north from Swakopmund on the C34, then the D2301 past Henties Bay.
	www.v-liz.com /namibia/c_cross.htm (225 words)

	Cape Cross - Home
		Literally meters from the fertile Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cross Lodge presents a unique and serene stop for travellers along this vast untamed, seldom explored wilderness on the Skeleton Coast.
		Situated alongside the biggest breeding Cape Fur Seal colony in the world, but well out of the "smell" zone, 60km north of Henties Bay and 120km north of Swakopmund.
		The curious mix of Cape Dutch and West Coast fishing village architecture with colossal windows happily embrace the natural light and affords endless contemplated vistas.
	www.capecross.org /index.htm (182 words)

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