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bearded seal

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Noun1.bearded sealbearded seal - medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean
Erignathus barbatus, squareflipper square flipper
earless seal, hair seal, true seal - any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers
Erignathus, genus Erignathus - bearded seals


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Polar bears are the most OHC-contaminated species in the Arctic, and those from East Greenland and Svalbard (Norway) carry the most contaminants because of their reliance on OHC-polluted blubber, mainly from ringed seal (Phoca hispida) and bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), contaminated by OHCs originating from lower-latitude airborne pollution [Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) 2004; de March et al.
Do organohalogen contaminants contribute to histopathology in liver ... by Hyldstrup, Lars / Environmental Health Perspectives
At the request of Alowa and others from Savoonga, ACAT tested plants and fish from the Northeast Cape, along with contaminants in reindeer, murre eggs, bearded seal and walrus and the blood of 60 islanders.
The Arctic dilemma: a perfect storm of environmental changes is ... by Rosen, Yereth / Colorlines Magazine
hispida) and bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), which is the primary food of the polar bear (AMAP 2004; de March et al.
Is bone mineral composition disrupted by organochlorines in East ... by Muir, Derek C.G. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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