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Click here for the updated InfoBook - Harbor Seals. ... A Sea World Education Department Publication ... Scientific Classification; Habitat and Distribution; Physical Characteristics; Senses; Adaptations for an Aquatic Enviornment; Behavior; Diet and Eating Habits; Reproduction; Birth and Care of Young; Longevity and Causes...
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www.seaworld.org/infobooks/HarborSeal/home.html
www.seaworld.org/infobooks/HarborSeal/home.html
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There are approximately 40,000 harbor seals in California waters. They can usually be observed inhabiting shallow areas where sandbars, rocks and beaches are uncovered during low tides or otherwise easily accessible.
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www.palomar.edu/oceanography/harbor_seals/facts.htm
www.palomar.edu/oceanography/harbor_seals/facts.htm
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General information about harbor seals ... Harbor seals are widely distributed throughout temperate and subarctic waters of the northern hemisphere. The San Francisco Bay harbor seals are taxonomically classified as Phoca vitulina richardii;
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Until recently, Glacier Bay was the site of one of Alaska’s largest documented breeding colonies of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) at Johns Hopkins Inlet, where they rest and nurse on drifting ice bergs (Mathews 1995, Mathews and Kelly 1996). Ice haulouts (resting areas) generated in tidewater glacial fjords are...
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www.nps.gov/glba/naturescience/seal.htm
www.nps.gov/glba/naturescience/seal.htm
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Harbor seals, Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus, 1758), are the most common seal species and contain 5 subspecies. Alaskan and western Pacific harbor seals are significantly larger than seals in the Atlantic southern areas of the eastern Pacific.
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marinebio.org/species.asp?id=158
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2. Estimate the size (age) of rockfish (to species if possible), lingcod and other bottom fish being consumed by seals in the San Juan Islands. 3. Determine if there are significant differences in seal diet by season and how seal ... Harbor seal research activities were conducted under MMPA Research Permit 782-170200.
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The diet of harbor seals Phoca vitulina in southern Padilla Bay, Washington ... Diets are thus assumed to reflect the unique prey assemblages available spatially and temporally, with the most abundant species composing a majority of the diet, although energy content may also influence prey selection.
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www.padillabay.gov/researchselectedluxa.asp
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16. Shaffer, K. 1989. Seasonal and Site Variations in the Diets of Harbor Seals, Phoca vitulina richardsi, in Northern California. M.S. Thesis, California State University, Humboldt, California. 66 pp.
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virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us/torokm/hs_info.htm
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Estimating importance of rockfish, lingcod and other bottomfish in the diet of harbor seals in the San Juan Islands ... Harbor seals are the most abundant pinniped species in the inland waters of Washington east of Cape Flattery, numbering nearly 15,000 animals and are important upper trophic level predators. In the San...
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