hooded seal

The hooded seal can live to about age 30 to 35.

It is a major breeding ground of harp seal and hooded seal.

Or, in the case of the hooded seal, recuperate quietly after swallowing a half-dozen rocks.

Human infants are unusually portly; among mammals, only hooded seals have a higher percentage of body fat at birth.

In 2006, 17,037 seals (including 13,390 harp and 3,647 hooded seals) were harvested.

Commercial imports of baby harp seal and hooded seal skins are prohibited.

Harp and Hooded Seals are usually found in the spring, giving birth to their young on coastal ice floes.

By 1993, a sharp rise in their numbers was seen and three other species, gray, harp and hooded seals, began to be sighted regularly.

The hooded seal, for instance, was the 3,597th marine mammal it had rescued or recovered in New York.

Her fuzzy, bluish-gray fur is the distinct coat of a hooded seal less than a year old, and she appears soft enough to cuddle.

Other pinnipeds shown include hooded seals and harbour seals.

Crab fishing, hunting for hooded seals, and fishing from small boats are the main sources of income for the area's inhabitants.

The West Ice is a major breeding ground for seals, especially harp seals and hooded seals.

Lactation ranges from five to seven weeks in the monk seal to just three to five days in the hooded seal.

This opinion is based on the scientific statistics available on the development of populations of grey harp seals and blue hooded seals.

Nygaard said that Carino was offering sealers only half the usual prices for adult harp and hooded seals.

The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped.

During the spring, many Greenlanders hunt hooded seals among the outer islands, where the pack ice drifts up from the east coast on its way north.

The most common seal is ringed seal, followed by Hooded Seal and harp seal.

The postweaning fast ranges from two weeks in the hooded seal to 9-12 weeks in the northern elephant seal.

In 2006, 325,000 harp seals, as well as 10,000 hooded seals and 10,400 grey seals were killed.

Ottawa banned all offshore commercial hunting of white-coated baby harp seals, blueback hooded seals and gray seals.

The planned aquarium would display Kemp's ridley and loggerhead turtles and harbor, harp, gray and hooded seals.

Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata)

It is illegal in Canada to hunt newborn harp seals (whitecoats) and young hooded seals (bluebacks).