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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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With humpback whales bubblenetting, crabeater seals and Gentoo penguins the trip started on a high note.

Antarctic adventures

The enormous gaur can scarcely fit on his page and the text has to squeeze around his body, while the crabeater seals, which are extremely numerous, are crowded on to their page with no room to spare.

Brown, Martin: Lesser Spotted Animals

The Ross Sea slope is also considered a 'hotspot' for the rare Arnoux's beaked whale and is home to more than two hundred thousand crabeater seals, perhaps 8000 leopard seals and 5000 Ross seals.

The Ross Sea: Dr David Ainley describes the Ross Sea in Antarctica, a rich biodiversity hotspot and perhaps the last remaining ocean on earth where top predators abound and drive the ecosystem. But industrial fishing, with New Zealand companies being major participants, threatens to destroy this unique ocean habitat and its abundant life

Up close, killer whales hunt the floes for sleeping crabeater seals, while cape petrels, those checkerboard flyers of the cold waters, surf the air curls streaming off the ship.

March of the tourists: Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand?

The data recovered from tagged Crabeater seals and Adelie penguins revealed their diving and feeding behavior, and researchers discovered some movements that they hadn't suspected.

Voyages into the Antarctic winter: pioneering cruises into the pack ice of the Southern Ocean reveal secrets of its fertile ecosystem

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

In pinnipeds, the disease has been described in crabeater seals (Phoca carcinophagus) from the Antarctic (1), Baikal seals (P.