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pinniped
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pinniped see seal .
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seal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...any of the fin-footed mammals, or pinnipeds, including the walrus , the eared seals...Characteristic Features of All Seals Pinnipeds have streamlined bodies, rounded in...action of the hind flippers. Nearly all pinnipeds are marine, and most inhabit cold or...
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elephant seal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Mirounga. It is the largest of the fin-footed mammals, or pinnipeds, exceeding the walrus in size. There is a northern species...LeBeouf, Elephant Seals (1985); F. Trillmich, ed., Pinnipeds and El Niño (1991).
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walrus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
walrus marine mammal, Odobenus rosmarus, found in Arctic seas. Largest of the fin-footed mammals, or pinnipeds (see seal ), the walrus is also distinguished by its long tusks and by cheek pads bearing quill-like bristles. Adult males...
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Fisheries
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...from becoming important food sources. On the West Coast, aboriginal societies caught salmon, eulachon, shellfish, and pinnipeds, while nineteenth‐century Euroamericans pursued Pacific salmon, fur seals, and whales. Commercial fishers...
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sea lion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...weigh up to 500 lb (225 kg). The northern, or Stellar's, sea lion, Eumetopias jubatus, is one of the largest of the pinnipeds, exceeded in size only by the elephant seal and the walrus. Males may grow up to 13 ft (4.9 m) long and weigh as much...
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marine mammals
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...known to attack humans, on at least one occasion with fatal results. Bibliography Perrin, W.,, Wirsig, B.,, and and Thewissen, J. , Encyclopaedia of Marine Mammals (2002).www.pinnipeds.org/contents.htm M. V. Angel
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sealing
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...as late as 1964 on South Georgia, but in common with all Southern Ocean seals south of 60° S. is now protected under the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals. www.pinnipeds.org/contents.htm M. V. Angel
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Seals
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...flippers, while the hind limbs are backwardly directed in swimming and act as a propulsive tail. There are three families of pinnipeds: the Otariidae (sea lions), the Odobenidae (the walrus), and the Phocidae (the true seals). The “ earless...
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