pinniped

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• Results of seasonality studies of ringed seal canines, in addition to pinniped ratios, show the importance of the floe-edge habitat to Nugumiut residents in outer Frobisher Bay.
• Pinnipeds and cetaceans make long-distance seasonal migrations to rookeries (breeding grounds) or warm-water birthing grounds.
• -- Among pinnipeds, sealions belonging to Arctocephalus and Zalophus often hybridise, but they are well apart in phylogenies, and have traditionally even been grouped in separate subfamilies. The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas
• For example, areas where pinnipeds seals and sea lions have pupping grounds, and often costal points outside of kelp beds, are "hot spots" off California, says Professor Cailliet. Dr. Douglas Fields: Alarming Increase in Fatal Shark Attacks World-Wide: Science cuts through the hysteria for answers
• Then again, I'm positively balmy myself, so I was prepared to perambulate with a pack of pinniped pals. Jerry Zezima: "Seals of Approval"
• -- Among phocid pinnipeds, Phoca and Cystophora have been reported to hybridise, but again are from different 'subfamilies'. The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas
• Fish runs attract pinnipeds, which attract great whites.
• The impressions left behind in the underside of the surfboard were more reminiscent of a pinniped's dentition than that of a white shark.
• Killer whales also prey on mammals such as other cetaceans and pinnipeds, as well as on birds and large fish.
• This sensitivity could provide a means to track a dead whale's scent from miles away or find a pinniped rookery or haul-out site from their excrement droppings carried by the oceans currents.