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	Hooded Seal
		The hooded seal is so named because of a large elastic nasal cavity, or “hood”, extending from the nostrils to the forehead which, when fully inflated, resembles a large fl rubber ball.
		The “hood” is absent in females and immature males.
		Most of the hooded seal population is distributed in the North Atlantic including the waters around the Maritime provinces, Newfoundland, and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
	www.nature.ca /notebooks/english/hoodseal.htm (126 words)

	Hooded Seal Cystophora cristata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Hooded seals are found only in the central and western North Atlantic (see map) and their distribution generally follows the seasonal limits of pack ice.
		Hooded seals are occasionally seen outside their normal range and have been spotted along the east coast of the U.S. south to Puerto Rico, on the West coast of the U.S. (as far south as California) and along the coast of Portugal.
		Hooded seals are hunted throughout their range and, considering the unknown status of both stocks, exploitation and international trade may constitute a threat to the species.
	www.pagophilus.org /hoods.html (387 words)

	SCS: Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata)
		The total hooded seal population is currently estimated to be 650,000, consisting of 250,000 in the Jan Mayen population and 400,000 in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
		The shift to killing seals for their fur in the 1940s led to intensive hunting on the Front, particularly of hooded seal "bluebacks" (juveniles less than 14 months old) whose pelts are much valued.
		Commercial hunting of hooded seals is prohibited in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and in the Davis Strait.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/hooded.htm (1709 words)

	Other phocid seals
		Lavigne, D.L. and Kovac, K.M. Harps and hoods.
		The hooded seals are grey, with fl irregular patches.
		Hooded seal pups shed the light grey lanugo before birth.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/othphoca.htm (2370 words)

	Fisheries and Aquaculture Management - Seals and Sealing in Canada
		Three of the species considered by the Panel (harp seal, hooded seal and grey seal) aggregate to breed, and their pups remain on the land or ice where they are born over a number of days or weeks.
		The TAC for hooded seals was increased from 8,000 to 10,000 in 1998.
		Seal predation as a cause in the major collapses of Canadian Atlantic groundfish stocks was not generally promoted as an explanation in interviews with either scientists or stakeholders (individual fishers, union and industry representatives), although advanced as one cause for collapse of northern cod by Winters and Miller (2001).
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /seal-phoque/reports-rapports/expert/repsm-rgegp_e.htm (17882 words)

	Caribbean Monk Seal News - Monachus Guardian 4 (2): November 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Hooded seal juveniles in particular have been known to wander fairly large distances off the beaten track, and individuals have been found far south in previous years.
		The hooded seals being found are mostly emaciated and dehydrated, many suffering from heat exhaustion, and are in need of immediate medical assistance to secure their survival.
		It appears that the hooded seals are increasingly straying far into new territories, even those a long distance away from their home in the far north, and are visiting the tropical beaches previously enjoyed by the sadly demised Caribbean monk seal.
	www.monachus.org /mguard08/08newcar.htm (687 words)

	Offshore / Inshore Fisheries Development & Technologies: Species - Hooded Seal
		Hooded seals grow rapidly, females reaching sexual maturity and whelping between three and seven years, and mostly at four to five years.
		Unlike harp seals, which whelp at slightly different dates in different regions according to the onset of spring, hooded seals whelp in the second half of March, wherever they occur, with a peak about March 17.
		Aircraft were chartered to census whelping patches of hooded seals in the Gulf, on the Front, and in Davis Strait.
	www.mi.mun.ca /mi-net/fishdeve/hooded.htm (1507 words)

	Marine Mammals - Hooded Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		This hood is essentially a fleshy sac which is alternately inflated with air and then allowed to collapse.
		Hooded seals are a migratory species and live between the large masses of drifting sea ice and the open sea.
		Hooded seals are opportunistic feeders, taking advantage of the most abundant species at a particular time of season.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpl/organisms/mammals/Marine/hooded.htm (242 words)

	Hooded seals
		Hooded seals are a less numerous seal than the harp, but inhabit the same regions of the world.
		Hence their scientific name, "bladder carrying seal with a crest." The females are rather unspectacular compared to the male.
		Two of these hooded seals have been outfitted with satellite transmitters which have enabled researchers to trace their movements and behavior.
	www.cresli.org /cresli/seals/hoodseal.html (294 words)

	Northeastern Naturalist: Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) records from the Southern Gulf of Maine
		Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata (Erxleben, 1777)) whelp in late March and early April, and molt between June and August at specific locations on the North Atlantic pack ice.
		Hooded seals were reported in August (n = 3), September (n = 2), and October (n=1) 1999, but not in either 1997 or 1998.
		Sightings of hooded seals in the northern Gulf of Maine, to the head of the Bay of Fundy, were rare through the 20`h century until the second half of the 1990s (McAlpine et al.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3845/is_200101/ai_n8945717 (1372 words)

	Hooded Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hooded seal (Cystophora christata) is an arctic seal, which is named after a cap-like bulge essay on forehead and nose of the male that doesn’t hang down as with the elephant seal.
		The bulge develops when the seal is four years old.
		The male of the hooded seal is about two and a half meters long and weighs 300 kg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hooded_Seal (144 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.
		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.
		Even though the hunting of seals is now much less intense than in the past, threats from pollution, especially oil spills, and the accumulation of marine debris such as lost or discarded fishing line and nets still cause many deaths among seals.
	www.exzooberance.com /virtual%20zoo/they%20swim/seal/seal.htm (2652 words)

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		Hooded seals are not as gregarious as harp seals.
		Hooded seals are thought to wander more widely than harp seals but little is known about their distribution after leaving the molting patches in the Denmark Strait.
		The pelts of hooded seals are not differentiated from other species in the trade statistics, therefore the main purchasers of Canadian hooded seal pelts are the same as for harp seals: Norway, Canada and China.
	www.ifaw.org /ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=13020 (564 words)

	Hooded Seal, Cystophora cristata @ MarineBio.org
		The Hooded seal, Cystophora cristata, is named for the large elastic sac that extends from the nose to the forehead that expands into a large balloon-like ball in adult males.
		Hooded seals were commonly killed for their pelts, and juvenile "bluebacks" were particularly valued.
		Hooded seals are hunted in Norway and Russia, however hunting has been reduced in this seal population in recent years due to difficult weather conditions, access to the seals, and poorly maintained sealing vessels.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=304 (1667 words)

	hoody - definition by dict.die.net
		Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow.
		Hooded gull, the European fl-headed pewit or gull.
		Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata).
	dict.die.net /hoody (183 words)

	ipedia.com: Earless Seal Article
		The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal suborder, Pinnipedia.
		This combination of fasting with lactation is one of the most unusual and extraordinary behaviors displayed by the Phocidae, because it requires the mother seal to provide large amounts of energy to her pup at a time when she herself is taking in no food (and often, no water) to replenish her stores.
		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.
	www.ipedia.com /earless_seal.html (785 words)

	Rescue of Baby Hooded Seal in U.S. Hits a Snag
		Summary Scientists at the National Aquarium in Baltimore are concerned about the whereabouts of a baby hooded seal they spent four months resuscitating after it was rescued far from the Arctic.
		Hooded seals, which get their name from red nasal sacs that males can inflate during courtship, typically spend the summer north of the Arctic Circle.
		This year an unusually large number of hooded seals have been found stranded along the eastern shoreline of the United States, and scientists have no idea why.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/11/1127_TVhoodedsealrescue.html (629 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Hooded seal
		An arctic seal in which males have a bizarre inflatable 'hood' on their heads, and can also inflate their nasal cavity out through their nostrils like a red balloon.
		Hooded seals are generally solitary except during the breeding season and when moulting from June to August.
		Currently hooded seals are not thought to be threatened, although changes to the Arctic ice because of global warming is a concern.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/602.shtml (290 words)

	* Hooded Seal - (Animals): Definition
		Their primary prey is the ringed seal though they also take bearded, harp and hooded seals and the occasional walrus youngster.
		The ringed seal, or floe rat, Pusa hispida, is also Arctic in distribution, and is about the same size as the harp seal.
		The gray seal, Halichoerus grypus, and the hooded seal, Cystophora cristata, are larger, and are also found in Arctic waters...
	en.mimi.hu /animals/hooded_seal.html (269 words)

	Meet the hooded seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		While the Harp Seal mother will usually abandon her pup when hunters approach, the female Hooded Seal is much more aggressive, and will stay to defend her baby.
		These seals are solitary animals except during the birthing/mating period when they are found in "families" of two adults and one pup, and again in July and August when they gather on ice floes during the molting season.
		Little is known about their migrations or lifestyle, since most information has so far come from the sealing industry, and most of the web sites that are concerned with the Hooded Seal concentrate on the inhumane hunting of pups and juveniles for their pelts.
	www.drawfluffy.com /hooded-seal.html (958 words)

	HOODED - Definition
		Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
		(b) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
		{Hooded warbler}, a small American warbler ({Sylvania mitrata}).
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/hooded (115 words)

	dublin in bits: events - Rare Hooded Seal Released: events - Rare Hooded Seal Released
		flubber, the rare hooded seal rescued on the wexford coast in september, has been released 140 miles off the Galway coast by staff of the irish seal sanctuary with the kind assistance of the irish naval service.
		the male hooded seal was nursed back to health in the sanctuary in north county dublin, taken by road to galway on monday, and brought aboard the naval vessel l.e.
		the irish seal sanctuary, a charity run by dubliners brendan and mary price, expressed its appreciation for the help of the irish naval service in returning the fine (but a little grumpy) creature to the wild.
	gallery.adnet.ie /sh516x3369.html (249 words)

	Hooded Seals in the Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The seal was rescued by the Caribbean Stranding Network and veterinarian Luis Figueroa examined the animal and prescribed electrolyte fluids for dehydration, and antibiotics as preventive treatment.
		A third hooded seal was rescued in Anguilla on 3 August 2001, but the seal died during its first night.
		A fourth hooded seal was observed alive on 3 August 2001 off Riding Rock Marina in San Salvador Island in the Bahamas.
	www.pagophilus.org /caribb.htm (474 words)

	W. Don Bowen - Curriculum Vitae
		The prenatal molt and its ecological significance in the hooded and harbor seal.
		The composition of hooded seal milk: An adaptation for postnatal fattening.
		Abundance estimation of a dispersed and dynamic population: Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) in the northwest Atlantic.
	www.dal.ca /~bowenlab/docs/cv.html (3734 words)

	Rescued Blind Hooded Seal Takes the Plunge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Nuki is unusually mild tempered for a Hooded Seal, who tend to be aggressive, and she is exploring her new home cautiously by sniffing and moving her whiskers forward.
		Hooded Seals are known to dive repeatedly to over 1,000 meters and can stay submerged for over 50 minutes.
		Hooded Seals are named after the inflatable crest, or hood, on their forehead.
	www.petsforum.com /petnews/032404c.htm (675 words)

	Rare Seals On Cape Ann:1999 Sightings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		However, since seals totally change their coats and markings between their first and second year, there is no way to say for sure if this is the case.
		On the same day that the hooded seal was found, we also got a report of a harp seal ashore in Rockport.
		Since sick harbor seals often disguise their illnesses, we finally made the decision to relocate the seal and further investigate its health.
	www.whalecenter.org /sightings/seals99.htm (411 words)

	Hooded seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Hooded seal is a sturdy animal (2 to 2.6 m, 145 to 400 kg) with a short, broad head.
		They are born in the spring on static ice floes, and are only suckled for four days.
		Like all Arctic seals, the Hooded seal has also been hunted since prehistoric times, and they were hunted commercially in recent centuries, primarily for oil and fur of the pups.
	www.zeehondencreche.nl /english/seals/types/hooded.htm (133 words)

	Hooded Seal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Hooded Seal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The hooded seal (Cystophora christata) is an arctic seal, which is named after a cap-like bulge essay on forehead and nose of the male that doesn’t hang down as with the (Either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks) elephant seal.
		The head is darker than the rest of the body, and without marks.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hooded_seal.htm (205 words)

	CAROLINE LUCAS MEP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The hunt in itself is already a cruel and inhumane practice, but for this massacre to become the biggest seal hunt in history is utterly unacceptable.
		Currently, the products of 'whitecoats' - harp seal pups up to their first moult which happens after just a few days - and 'bluebacks' - hooded seal pups up to their first moult which happens much later at around 18 months are prohibited from entering the EU under Regulation (83/129/EEC).
		As a result fur and seal oil are currently being imported into the EU market.
	www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk /parliament/seal_hunt_canada_26032003.html (214 words)

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