MARINE MAMMALS SEA OTTERS HARBOR SEALS NORTHERN FUR SEALS as in “ rst:” The Seattle Aquarium was number of months, approximately, that as in “ rst:” The Seattle Aquarium was the the rst in the world to have sea otters harbor seal pups nurse before weaning and rst in the world to have a northern fur seal 1 conceived, born and live to adulthood 1 starting life on their own. 1 conceived and born in human care. in a zoo or aquarium. the approximate number of minutes a harbor the percentage of the northern fur seal the average percentage of time a sea otter seal can remain underwater while diving up population that breeds on Alaska’s Pribilof spends grooming its fur each day. to 1,200 feet below the surface in search of 15 30 food (most dives are much shorter, though: 50+ Islands—making this location ideal for 3–10 minutes). research on these animals in the wild. the approximate number of hairs the average weight range in how many times larger a male northern on every square inch of a sea pounds for male harbor seals; fur seal can be compared to a female—the 500,00 otter’s fur (the equivalent of the 150–375 females average 100–300 pounds. 6 largest size dierence of any marine number of hairs on three or four mammal species! entire human heads!).

Northern fur seals live most Harbor seals of the year in are the most the open ocean, abundant returning to A group of marine shore only for sea otters is mammals in breeding called a raft. Puget Sound. season.

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