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	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 (164 words)

	The S.A. 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.
		Fur seals are so-named for their thick pelt, unlike true seals which have only a thin covering of hair.
		In southern Africa fur seal harvesting is one of the oldest of all commercial `fisheries'.
	www.botany.uwc.ac.za /EnvFacts/facts/seal.htm (879 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)

	* Fur Seal - (Animals): Definition
		Fur seals are distinguished from true seals by the presence of external ears and the ability to bring their rear flippers underneath their bodies to enable them to stand on all four limbs...
		The sea lion is similar to the fur seal and the larger of the eared seals.
		seals, family Phocidae, are classified with the eared seals (sea lions and fur seals), family Otariidae, and the walruses, family Odobenidae, in the Pinnipedia--the...
	en.mimi.hu /animals/fur_seal.html (499 words)

	Fur Seal Act of 1966 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fur Seal Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 89-702, November 2, 1966, 80 Stat.
		The Fur Seal Act Amendments of 1983 (P.L. 98-129) authorized the continued taking of fur seals and disposal of their skins by Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, provided that the seals are taken for subsistence purposes as defined by the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act.
		Title II of the amendments provided for continued administration of the islands' fur seal rookeries to protect fur seals and for the maintenance of the Pribilof Islands Trust.
	laws.fws.gov /lawsdigest/furseal.html (347 words)

	Casie's Northern Fur Seal Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The voice of a northern fur seal is a loud bark among adults and young fur seals have a goat-like call.
		Fur seals can be found in the sub-arctic waters of the northern Pacific Ocean, the Bering and Okhotsk Seas, and the Sea of Japan.
		At sea the fur seals often sleep on their backs with the hindflippers folded forward and held in place by a foreflipper.
	www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/che/mammals/nfurseal.html (306 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)

	World Almanac for Kids
		The various forms, known also as fur seals, hair seals, elephant seals, sea lions, and leopard seals, are widely distributed throughout the marine regions of the frigid and temperate zones; only the monk seals of the genus Monachus are tropical.
		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)

	Fur Seals - Wildlife of Antarctica - Antarctic Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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.
		Fur Seals can be quite aggressive and it is wise to give them a wide berth, especially during the mating season.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/wildlife/seals/fur.shtml (546 words)

	fur seal on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Like the closely related sea lion, the nine species of fur seals are distinguished from the true seal by external ears and the ability to turn their hind flippers forward for walking on land.
		The northern, or Alaskan, fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus, has an outer coat of long coarse hair known as guard hair and an inner coat of thick soft fur; it is the inner coat that is valued in the fur trade.
		Herds of northern fur seals, mostly females and juveniles, winter in open ocean along the Pacific coast of North America, migrating in spring to breeding beaches that range from the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to San Miguel Island off California.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f1/furseal.asp (747 words)

	Northern Fur Seal: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Northern fur seals are found on both sides of the Pacific Ocean from about 32° north to the central Bering Sea.
		When observed at sea, fur seals appear very dark and are often seen porpoising or resting on the surface with one or more of their long flippers curved above the water.
		Female fur seals mature at 3 to 5 years of age, and over 80 percent of those between ages 8 and 13 are pregnant each year.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/marine/furseal.php (898 words)

	New Zealand Fur Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fur seals look almost fl when wet, but may look lighter when dry.
		Female fur seals on the West Coast are known to (occasionally) dive deeper than 238 m, and for as long as I I minutes.
		Fur seals are polygamous breeders, which means that a male may mate with many females in a single breeding season.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/003~Marine-Mammals/NZ-Fur-Seal.asp (860 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)

	fur seal -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is a migratory inhabitant of northern seas, breeding in summer on the Pribilof, Komandor (Commander), and other islands.
		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 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-9035681?tocId=9035681 (901 words)

	Species Composition: Fur Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sealing was resumed at South Georgia between 1870 and 1907, and all seals that could be found at the recovering but small colony were killed.
		Nearly 250,000 seals were killed in 1821, depleting the colonies there, and smaller colonies at the South Orkney (probably mainly bachelor fur seals) and South Sandwich islands also were rapidly depleted.
		Approximately 71 percent of the entangled fur seals observed have been males, and 8 percent of these males were 4 years old or younger.
	polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu /ASPIRE_99/seals/science/fur.htm (1351 words)

	Seal at exZOOberance!
		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.
		Fur seals, however, keep a dense coat of fur throughout their lives, made up of about 120,000 hairs per sq cm (about 800,000 hairs per sq in).
		True seals have the highest milk fat levels, averaging 40 to 50 percent, while sea lions and fur seals pack 10 to 14 percent protein into their milk.
	www.exzooberance.com /virtual%20zoo/they%20swim/seal/seal.htm (2652 words)

	University Week - Vol. 20, No. 10 - Research on seals has implications for sustainability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The largest rookeries of northern fur seals are in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands in the central Bering Sea.
		Recent analysis of seal bones from hunting camps on the Farallons by other researchers indicates these animals were northern fur seals, not another species, Guadalupe fur seals.
		Etnier also measured individual growth rates of male fur seals, because animals tend to grow to smaller body size when their population levels are high and larger body size when their population levels are low.
	admin.urel.washington.edu /uweek/archives/issue/uweek_story_small.asp?id=887 (916 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Northern fur seal
		Seals, sea lions, fur seals and walruses are all classed as pinnipeds.
		Northern fur seals tend to live alone or in pairs, and rarely come to land, except to breed.
		The northern fur seal has been hunted for fur since the 18th Century, and in 1911, the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention was founded.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/174.shtml (337 words)

	Fact Sheets > Northern Fur Seal
		A smaller population of Northern fur seals are found on San Miguel Island of the California coast.
		Northern fur seals feed mainly at night and may dive to depths of 600 feet (180 m) in search of small schooling fish and squid and prey are typically eaten underwater.
		The Northern fur seal can live for 25 years, but most females live to be 18-20 years old and the males to their low teens.
	www.fact-sheets.com /science-nature/animals/northfurseal (448 words)

	The Australia Fur Seal
		Being the largest of the fur seals they can eventually reach a weight of 360 kg for the males and 110 kg for the females, with the pups being 5 - 12 kg (for males) and 4 - 10 kg (for females) at birth.
		The Australian fur seal is commonly seen in south eastern Australian waters, from Seal Rocks in New South Wales down to Tasmania.
		They differ from the New Zealand fur seal (which is also found in Australian waters) in that its breeding habitat is on exposed rocky shores (the New Zealand fur seal prefers sheltered boulder beaches), although both the Australian fur seal and the New Zealand fur seal can be found in colonies at Montague Island.
	www.abyss.com.au /seals.html (425 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Antarctic fur seal
		For this reason, fur seals are more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and are more capable of moving on land.
		The largest populations are found south of the Antarctic polar front, and 95 per cent of Antarctic fur seals breed on South Georgia.
		Antarctic fur seals are not considered to be threatened.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/172.shtml (281 words)

	Guadalupe Fur Seal
		Guadalupe fur seals breed along the eastern coast of Guadalupe Island, approximately 200 km west of Baja California.
		The major cause of the Guadalupe fur seal's decline was commercial hunting in the late 1700's and early 1800's.
		The principal cause of the decline in Guadalupe fur seals was commercial sealing.
	www.nmfs.noaa.gov /prot_res/species/Pinnipeds/guadalupefurseal.html (430 words)

	Factsheets: Australian Fur Seal
		Like all members of the Family Otariidae (Fur seals and sea lions) they can raise their body onto their front flippers to move around on land.
		The Australian Fur seal has a relatively restricted distribution around the islands of Bass Strait, parts of Tasmania and southern Victoria.
		As it is closely related to the South African Fur Seal, its populations worldwide are reasonable secure although it is occasionally commercially hunted in South Africa.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/fur_seal.htm (467 words)

	SCS: Guadalupe Fur Seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)
		Guadalupe fur seals were nearly wiped out by intensive commercial sealing in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
		The Guadalupe fur seal is one of the least-studied of all the fur seal species, due partly to its geographical isolation.
		However it is known that Guadalupe fur seals breed at rocky sites or in caves on the eastern coast of Isla de Guadalupe, adult males fighting to form territories where there will be an average of 4, but up to 12, females.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/guadfur.htm (652 words)

	FUR SEAL ACT: Summary from Federal Wildlife Laws Handbook
		Fur seals taken contrary to the provisions of the Convention may not be possessed, imported, transported or offered for sale.
		Seals may be taken only in canoes propelled entirely by oars, paddles or sails, and manned by not more than five persons each.
		In consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary must administer the fur seal rookeries and other federal property on the Pribilof Islands to ensure that the goals of conserving, managing and protecting fur seals and other wildlife are achieved.
	ipl.unm.edu /cwl/fedbook/furseal.html (960 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)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Galapagos fur seal
		These are the smallest of all fur seals, but have the longest nursing period of all.
		Galapagos fur seals hunt during the night and feed on fish, squid and octopus.
		Galapagos fur seals have the longest nursing period of all fur seals, and pups remain with their mother for 1-3 years.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/173.shtml (180 words)

	★ Photographs of New Zealand Fur Seals. Arctocephalus forsteri
		The New Zealand (or Southern) Fur Seal is a species of fur seal found around the south coast of Australia, the coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and some of the small islands to the south and east of there.
		These seals were widely hunted from shortly after the European discovery of New Zealand until the late 19th Century.
		The population of the New Zealand seal fell to levels under 10% of the original numbers.
	www.mkiwi.com /New+Zealand+picture/Seals/New_Zealand_seal_pictures.html (294 words)

	Fur Seal
		Fur Seals: Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea
		The Bering Sea fur seal dispute: A monograph on the maritime history of Alaska
		Pelage and surface topography of the northern fur seal (North American fauna)
	www.veryhappening.com /things/fur_seal (107 words)

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