Seals of the WorldUpdated and enhanced edition of that published twenty years ago. Includes maps, excellent illustrations, species accounts, a long section on pinniped anatomy and pathology, excellent appendices, indexes and bibliography. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
Classification | 15 |
Fossils relationships and chromosomes | 129 |
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adult females adult male animals Antarctic Arctic Arctocephalus Atlantic Australia Bearded Seal Bering Sea birth blood blubber body bones Bonner breeding colonies breeding season bulls Californian Callorhinus canines cheek teeth coast coat colour cows Crabeater Seal diving dorsal feeding fish foreflippers forsteri fur seal Arctocephalus Galapagos gazella glands Grey Seals groups hairs Harbour Seals harem Harp Seal hind flippers incisors Island King known Kooyman lactation large numbers leonina Leopard Seal Macquarie Mamm mating milk Mirounga monachine Monachus Monk Seal moult mths muscles Neophoca normal North northern fur seal northern phocids nose to tail occur Odobenus Otaria otariids Pacific parasites Phoca Phocarctos phocids Photo pinnipeds population Pribilof probably pups are born pusillus Repenning Ringed Seal rosmarus Ross Seal Scheffer sea lions seen skin skull Southern Elephant Seal species suckling tail length tion tropicalis usually ventral vitulina walrus Weddell Seal weight young Zalophus Zool