Sea hare, or bearded seal

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One of the largest species of seals inhabiting the area of the Arctic ocean, is a sea hare, or bearded seal. He lives in almost all Arctic seas and adjacent waters. Bearded seals can be found on the Eastern shore of the East Siberian sea, the Chukchi sea, from Cape barrow, in the waters of Spitsbergen, North of the Earth. In addition, these animals live in the shallow waters of the Kara, Barents and White seas. The bearded seal was chosen by the greater part of the Okhotsk sea and even reached the coast of southern Sakhalin. It can be found in the waters of the North Atlantic and the Western and Eastern coast of Greenland. Some individuals sometimes, not willingly migrate even in the North pole, where they go on the ice.sea hare

Looks Like a sea hare? It has a fairly massive trunk, against which the head and the flippers seem small. Length of adult specimens of the species ranges from 2.2 to 3 m, depending on the habitat, and its weight can be up to 360 lbs., Bearded, has a slightly elongated face and a shorter neck. Adults differ plain brownish-gray back, which at the bottom becomes a light gray. Many individuals along the back there is a kind of belt – a dark stripe with indistinct contours. Females and males have the same color.

Sea hare has a pronounced feature that distinguishes it from other seals – big thick and long labial vibrissae (whiskers kind) smooth and even shape. The rest of the hair - coarse and relatively sparse. Newborn seals have a grey-brown soft hair that resembles fur coat. On the head of the animal are whitish spots. The third finger of the fore flippers the longest. The teeth are quite small, which leads to their rapid abrasion. That is why adults from the gums they are insignificant.

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seal sea hareSome long seasonal migrations seal sea hare does. Basically, these animals are considered sedentary species, although at short distances are moved constantly. Depending on the area of habitation, they can move both actively and passively (on the ice). On the ice they are usually arranged singly, in rare cases, their number comes to three individuals. On the ice seals, not jumps, he climbs the aftershocks that carries through bumps the rear fins on the water. In autumn, you can observe large of a rookery.

Sea hare hunts on the bottom and near-bottom animals, mainly at a depth of 60 meters. There are rare cases when the seals down to a depth of 150 meters. The diet depends on the habitats. The sources of food for seals of this type are more than 70 species of animals, including crustaceans, molluscs, worms, and various fishes. In most cases, the ration is combined food.seal sea hare

The Mating of adults occurs on the ice floes after the lactation period. The pregnancy is almost a year. Puppy occurs from March to may. Those seals that live in the sea of Okhotsk, it ends with the month before, and in the Canadian archipelago and the Bering sea – only in may. Newborn sea hare are covered with thick dark brown fur, which lasts no more than three weeks. Its body length is 120 cm with Her milk the mother feeds the baby only 4 weeks.

By its nature this type of seal is a rather good-natured animal, not exhibiting any aggression. Surprisingly, males are not in conflict even in the mating season.


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