Antarctic fur seals need ice-free ground in order to breed. Why are they disappearing? Leopard seals are the only seals that prey on other seal species although fur seals have rarely been on the menu ...
Cape fur seals can recognize their pup's cry just two hours after birth, remarkably earlier than other mammals. For context, only about 40% of women can identify their baby's cry 24 hours after birth.
A marine mammal that disappeared from California's North Coast more than 170 years ago has returned in force to the Farallon Islands. The Farallones once supported hundreds of thousands of breeding ...
A Northern fur seal at the Seattle Aquarium soon will be top stud back East. “Isaac,” born nine years ago at the aquarium, will travel next week to Boston, his new home. Biologists hope the seal will ...
The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is among the most beloved sea animals, with its wet puppy dog eyes, big white whiskers, rolly poly gray body and slippery flippers. Unsurprisingly, the ...
A northern fur seal pup rescued from Newport Beach pier last fall by the Pacific Marine Mammal Center was recently released back to the ocean, with hopes she returns to the Channel Islands where the ...
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These fur seal pups were near death and weighed less than a terrier. What happened next saved them
This marks the second duo of fur seal pups rescued on the West Coast in the last year.
Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) have established a large resting colony in the Gulf of California--bringing the total number of sites where this endangered species now occurs to just ...
As their name suggests, northern fur seals boast dense, luxurious coats—and historically, that made them a prime target for hunters. Exploitation by hunters in Russia and North America drastically ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LAGUNA BEACH — Keith Matassa performed necropsies — animal autopsies — on Guadalupe fur seals Pacific Marine Mammal Center rescue teams picked up recently, ...
Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a lack of food, new research suggests. The study of fur seals, almost all of which live ...
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