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Mar 22, 2021 · Phocid seals primarily use their back flippers to push themselves through the water (like rear-wheel drive) and do not have external ear flaps. “Otariid seals” are also called “eared seals” and include all the species of sea lions and fur seals.
Jun 14, 2017 · Seals have short front flippers and un-rotatable rear flipper. Thus they cannot walk like sea lions can when they are out of the water. Instead they have to ungulate their bodies to produce forward movement.
Seals swim by moving their back flippers from side to side, propelling them through the water, while they use their front two flippers to give direction and steer. Grey and Common seals dive on average up to 100m however they have been recorded as deep as 500m!
Feb 7, 2006 · The northern sea lion inhabits waters from central California north along the west coast of North America to the Gulf of Alaska, through the Bering Sea then south along the east coast of Asia to the northern coasts of Japan.
Jun 19, 2024 · Seals have to hobble on their bellies to move on land. The way in which seals move is also referred to as caterpillar-like motion. Another difference are their ears. Sea lions have small external ear flaps. Seals don't have such visible ears, they have ear holes on the side of the head.
Harbor seals move south from eastern Canadian waters to breed along the coast of Maine, Cape Cod, and the South Shore in Massachusetts in May and June, and return northward in fall. Others will head south from these areas to "vacation" in warmer waters, particularly young seals unable to compete with adults for food and territory; they do not ...
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A group of seals on land is called a colony, and a group of seals in the water is called a raft. Seals can come together during breeding season and at certain popular breeding grounds in masses of hundreds, and sometimes thousands.
