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	eared seal definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		eared seal [ rd sl ] (plural eared seals)
		seal with external ears: a seal with conspicuous external ears and independent hind limbs or flippers that it uses to move on land.
		Sea lions and fur seals are eared seals.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861689577 (78 words)

	Camp Internet Marine Mammals Studies
		Seals and sea lions are pinnipeds, which means "fin- or feather-footed." They are mammals that have developed the ability to lead a double life, at once aquatic and terrestrial.
		The eared seals that live in the Channel Islands are the California sea lion and the northern fur seal.
		The harbor seal and the elephant seal, both residents of the channel, are earless or true seals.
	www.rain.org /campinternet/channelhistory/marinemammals/seals399.html (1009 words)

	seal - definition by dict.die.net
		Seal lock, a lock in which the keyhole is covered by a seal in such a way that the lock can not be opened without rupturing the seal.
		Seal ring, a ring having a seal engraved on it, or ornamented with a device resembling a seal; a signet ring.
		Sealing a document was equivalent to the signature of the owner of the seal.
	dict.die.net /seal (1183 words)

	World Almanac for Kids (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The sea lions are the larger of the eared seals.
		Pelagic sealing, or the hunting of seals in the ocean, was prohibited by the agreement, which permitted capture only of immature or bachelor seals, taken at the outskirts of the breeding grounds under government supervision.
		True seals are better adapted to life in water than are the longer-limbed eared seals, but on land they progress laboriously by wriggling and hunching the entire body.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/animals/seal.html (987 words)

	kelseyseal
		There are three kinds of seal's families: the true seals, the walrus, and the eared seals.
		The fur seal is part of the eared seal family.
		It is known that some eared seals migrate seasonally over long distances usually after their summer breeding season.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0112241/kelseyseal.htm (388 words)

	SEAL - Definition
		Seals are much hunted for their skins and fur, and also for their oil, which in some species is very abundant.
		An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
		To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/seal (1074 words)

	seal -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		There are two types of seals: the earless, or true, seals (family Phocidae); and the eared seals (family Otariidae), which comprise the sea lions and fur seals.
		The harbour seal is whitish or grayish at birth and as an adult is generally gray with fl spots.
		The eared seals have longer flippers than do the true seals, and in the water, it is the long front flippers that provide most of the propulsion.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066472?tocId=9066472 (918 words)

	Ch16 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Characteristics of this family are: small external ear flaps (pinnae), smooth vibrissae, light skin, a dense double layer of fur with short underfur and longer guard hairs, partially hairless fore- and hindflippers, 4 teats in females, scrotal testes, and skulls with supraorbital processes and sagittal crests (the latter enlarged in adult males only).
		Eared seals swim with their large foreflippers and can rotate their hindflippers forward to walk and climb on all fours on land.
		Phocids are characterized by the absence of external ear pinnae, a short muzzle, beaded vibrissae, dark skin, short fur, generally 2 teats in females, internal testes, furred fore- and hindflippers, and the absence of supraorbital processes or an enlarged sagittal crest on the skull.
	www.fao.org /docrep/T0725E/t0725e0g.htm (2982 words)

	Pinnipeds
		Phocidae: The true seals have no external ear flaps, and only a small ear hole is visible on their head.
		True seals are, of course, much more agile in the water where they use their hind flippers as their primary source of swimming power.
		Eared seals also use their front flippers to propel themselves through the water.
	www2.canisius.edu /~noonan/cac2000/pinnipeds.htm (268 words)

	* Seal - (Animals): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The true seals are a diverse and widely distributed group of mostly marine, aquatic mammals.
		Unlike sea lions and eared seals which use their fore flippers for propulsion, harp seals use their hind flippers in a side-to-side action to propel themselves through the water...
		Discovered by seal hunters at the beginning of the 19th century, the Hawaiian monk seal was hunted to the extent that it was almost extinct by the end of that century...
	www.bestknows.com /animals/seal.html (1136 words)

	Seal Bay Conservation Park - Australian Sea-Lion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They differ from true seals, or Phocidae, by having external ears, propelling themselves through the water with their front flippers and are more agile on land (as they are capable of "walking" on all four flippers).
		Seal Bay Conservation Park supports the third largest colony of Australian Sea-lions with a population of approximately 700 (5% of the world total).
		With female Australian Sea-lions (as with all seals) the implantation of the fertilised egg is delayed for an extended period.
	www.environment.sa.gov.au /parks/sealbay/sealion.html (924 words)

	ScienceMaster - JumpStart - Seals and Sea Lions
		Seals, sea lions and walrus are currently placed in the Suborder Pinnipedia in the Order Carnivora, which also includes the bears, dogs, racoons, and weasels (including otters).
		All of these seals have a vertical undulating motion when they move on land called "galluphing" because their pelvic bone does not provide a stable anchor point for the rear flippers to engage the ground for propulsion and the rear flippers are directed rearward.
		The otariids, fur seals and sea lions, are found in temperate colder waters and are associated in tropical latitudes with cold water upwelling currents.
	www.sciencemaster.com /jump/life/seals.php (1027 words)

	5 Facts About Sea Lions and Their Relatives - The Eared Seals - Softpedia
		Scientists thought the eared seals and walruses had a common origin with bears and dogs, while true seals had a common origin with otters, in the northern Atlantic, 14 million years ago.
		Their ears are modified so that they are not bothered by the high pressure of the sonic waves propagating underwater and are completed by a mechanism compensating the increased pressure in the case of dives in deep water.
		Galapagos Fur Seal (A. galapagoensis) is the smallest eared seal.
	news.softpedia.com /news/5-Facts-About-Sea-Lions-and-Their-Relative-76473.shtml (2517 words)

	About Antarctica: Seals
		Seals are categorized into three families: true seals, eared seals (common to most zoos), and walruses (found in the arctic).
		As for their eyes, seals don't really see color but they are particularly sensitive to common sea water colors (greens, green-blues).
		Fur Seals were placed under protection at the beginning of this century and have made a remarkable recovery.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/downey/project/seals.html (1141 words)

	Learning VBScript \| O'Reilly Media
		Eared seals are widely distributed throughout the world, especially in the southern hemisphere.
		In the water, both eared and earless seals move with a rowing motions of the front flippers, not using their rear flippers at all.
		Eared seals fall into one of two categories--fur seals or sea lions.
	oreilly.com /catalog/9781565922471/colophon.html (395 words)

	Sea Lion Caves
		The Steller sea lion is a member of the Otariidae family, or eared seal.
		The largest of the eared seal family and the principal tenant of Sea Lion Caves is the Steller sea lion.
		The true fur seal folds its front flippers and swims by the force of its trailing rear flippers.
	www.sealioncaves.com /2root/see.html (1680 words)

	Fur Seals - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fur seal populations were decimated in the 19th century by British and American sealers who pursued them for their skins.
		It was the quest for new populations of Fur seals that led to much of the early exploration of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
		Antarctic Fur seals are found mainly on the sub-antarctic islands of South Georgia, South Shetland, South Orkney, and South Sandwich, though today they are regularly seen farther and farther south on the Antarctic Peninsula.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/seals/fur.shtml (546 words)

	seal - definition from Biology-Online.org
		To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
		Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres.
		Synonym: marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/seal (314 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)

	endangered animals - reports (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seals are gray, have a smooth body and are sleek.
		Seals are endangered because people are killing them for skin and food.
		Seals are also endangered by pollution in lakes and seas.
	www.tenan.vuurwerk.nl /reports/dwight/sealsmeredith.htm (211 words)

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		Eared seals, as their name implies, have external ears on either side of the head.
		All other seals, or true seals, lack external ears, having only small, wrinkled openings where their ears would otherwise be.
		Another principle difference between eared seals and true seals is the functionality of their rear flippers.
	oreilly.com /catalog/9780596002701/colophon.html (432 words)

	SCS: Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
		The Northern fur seal is found throughout the north Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Bering Sea down to southern California in the east and to central Japan in the west.
		Juvenile male fur seals are still killed by Aleut natives on St. George and St. Paul Islands for subsistence purposes, 232 and 1,588 seals being killed on the respective islands in 1996.
		Fur seals are not killed on Bogoslof Island or San Miguel Island but it is thought that 0.2-2% of the population on the Asian islands are killed each year, including 1,500 males on Tyuleniy Island and 5,000 pups on the Commander Islands.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/norfursl.htm (1282 words)

	fur seal -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is a migratory inhabitant of northern seas, breeding in summer on the Pribilof, Komandor (Commander), and other islands.
		Characterized by V-shaped hind flippers, monk seals are brown or fl as pups, and dark gray or brown above, paler or whitish below as adults.
		The family of eared seals, Otariidae, contains five species of sea lions, one species of northern fur seal, and eight species of southern fur seals.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035681?tocId=9035681 (901 words)

	northern fur seal concept from the Canadian Mammals knowledge base
		northern fur seal concept from the Canadian Mammals knowledge base
		mammal > seal, sealion or walrus > eared seal > northern fur seal
		Next eared seal: northern sealion Up: eared seal Previous eared seal: California sealion
	www.site.uottawa.ca:4321 /animals/northernfurseal.html (36 words)

	SCS: Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
		Antarctic fur seals were almost made extinct by commercial sealing for their fur in the 18th and 19th centuries, perhaps only a few hundred of the seals remaining, and small scale hunting continued until 1907.
		Some scientists, claiming that the growing population of Antarctic fur seals is now causing environmental problems by polluting lakes and destroying plants in Antarctica, have been pushing for the downgrading of the fur seals' conservation status.
		Antarctic fur seals usually dive to a depth of 30-40m for an average of about 2 minutes, diving to a shallower depth at night, when they do most of their feeding, than during the day.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/antfursl.htm (1033 words)

	Chapter E <i>to</i> Earles penny of E by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		A disease in wheat, in which the flened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.
		A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.
		Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1196/22518/5.html (230 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - eared seal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seal (mammal) : types of seals : eared seals: Northern Fur Seal
		Northern Fur Seal, seal occurring in the North Pacific Ocean north into the Bering Sea and the Okhotsk Sea.
		Southern Fur Seal, common name for nine species of seal that live in the oceans of the southern hemisphere, characterized by a thick, woolly...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /eared_seal.html (113 words)

	ANIMAL Teachers: Warm-Blooded Ones: South African!Australian Fur Seal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		South African Fur Seal and Australian Fur Seal are essentially the same except for a few slight cranial differences.
		Scientists believe that the South African Fur Seal is the parent stock of the Australian Fur Seal.
		The largest of all Fur Seals, He engages in fierce battles for territory on the shore.
	www.funkman.org /animal/mammal/saauzfurseal.html (271 words)

	EARED - Definition
		[adj] having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination
		(Zo["o]l.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
		{Eared owl} (Zo["o]l.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the {long-eared owl}, and {short-eared owl}.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/eared (105 words)

	Taxonomy Order
		Galapagos fur seals are the smallest of the eared seal.
		The Galapagos fur seal population was heavily exploited during the 1800s by whalers and by commercial sealers.
		Galapagos fur seals are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and listed on Appendix II of CITES.
	www.imma.org /pinnipeds/galagagosfs.htm (493 words)

	Northern Elephant Seal Printout- EnchantedLearning.com
		The Northern Elephant Seal is a huge seal that lives in the Pacific Ocean (above 30 degrees North latitude).
		In the 1800's, the Northern Elephant Seal was hunted to the brink of extinction for its blubber (which was used for lamp oil).
		Seals don't chew their food; they swallow it in large chunks.
	enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/pinniped/Northerneleseal.shtml (417 words)

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