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Pinnipeds ID Flashcards

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Grey Seal

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Grey Seal

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Harbour Seal

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Harbour seal

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Harp Seal

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Harp Seal

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Hooded Seal

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Hooded seal

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Ringed seal

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Ringed seal

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Bearded seal

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Bearded seal

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Stellar Sea Lion

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Stellar sea lion

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Walrus

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Walrus

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Grey Seal features

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  • large (100kg+)
  • more solid dark grey/brown with blotchy colouration
  • long dog/horse like muzzle
  • parallel nostrils (W or M)
  • Atlantic Occean
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Harbour seal features

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  • medium size (45kg+)
  • mottled or spotted coat, base is white, grey/brown
  • round face with V nostril like a cat
  • northern coastlines (Atlantic and Pacific)
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Harp seal features

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  • medium/large
  • white/grey with large grey patches
  • narrow snout
  • teeth
  • flat head
  • Atlantic and Arctic regions
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Hooded seal features

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  • large
  • silver coat, with black spots
  • black head
  • stretchy cavity/hood that inflates to be red
  • North Atlantic and Arctic occean
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Ringed seal features

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  • small
  • silver to dark grey, with ring like patterns
  • round head, short muzzle
  • Arctic occean
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Bearded seal features

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  • large
  • grey/brown coat, melted or blotchy
  • square head with a beard
  • Arctic occean
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Stellar sea lion features

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  • large
  • tan to brow, with underside nearly black
  • large flippers
  • dog Rottweiler muzzle
  • external ear flaps
  • Pacific occean
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Walrus features

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  • XL
  • grey skin with red hair
  • short, broad muzzle with whit tusks
  • hairless flippers
  • whiskers
  • Arctic and subarctic
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Phocidae (True Seals)

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Propels themselves forward on land, no visible ear flaps (considered earless), propels themselves underwater from hind/rear flippers.

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Odobenidae

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Have tusks, only surviving species is the walrus.

Name means walking tusks

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Otariidae (eared)

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Eared seals, flippers further separated which allows them to sit up. Can walk on land with front and hind legs. External visual ears. Propels themselves underwater with their front flippers.

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Closest living relative

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Ursidae (to all)
Mustelidae (to true seals/phocidae)

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