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crabeater seal

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Noun1.crabeater seal - silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans
crab-eating seal
seal - any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions


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Similarly, around the Antarctic Peninsula, Adelie penguins, which winter on increasingly scarce sea ice, are being displaced by chinstrap penguins, which prefer open water, just as elephant seals are pushing aside their cold-loving cousins, the crabeater seals.
Warming up the seas by Woodard, Colin / E
In pinnipeds, the disease has been described in crabeater seals (Phoca carcinophagus) from the Antarctic (1), Baikal seals (P.
Phocine distemper in German seals, 2002 by Baumgartner, Wolfgang / Emerging Infectious Diseases
While no modern whales use their teeth to feed this way, Mitchell notes that the Crabeater seal, which does not eat crabs, has notched teeth that is uses to filter krill and other invertebrates.
Ancient whale smiled like a sieve by Science News
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