Search results for "South American Fur Seal" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Fur seal is the common name for eared seals comprising the genera ... *** South American fur seal, A. australis ** Genus Callorhinus ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- Eared seal is the common name for any of the marine mammals comprising ... *** South American fur seal, A. australis ** Genus Callorhinus ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- five genera and distinguished from fur seals in the same pinniped ... Sea lions are a type of "eared seal"; that is, marine mammals ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- In zoology, a seal is any pinniped other than a walrus. There are ... *** South American Fur Seal, Arctocephalus australis ** Subfamily Otariinae: ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- introduced in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The muskrat is found ... role in nature and is a resource of food and fur for humans, as well as sometimes ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- In technical discourse, however, as in American usage, the term "weasel ... humans, they have been a source of valuable fur and add to the human wonder ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- (European mink) and Neovison vison (American mink; synonym Mustela vison ... Minks have been valued historically for their thick and shiny fur ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- characterized by webbed feet, dense fur, a long, thin weasel-like ... in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin to ... The steller sea lion and the northern fur seal abound in the Okhotsk region. ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- waters provide haven for the Harp Seal, walrus, beluga whale, narwhal ... Archaic or Woodland cultures farther south; or that it was a fundamentally ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- archipelago at the extreme southern tip of South America, separated from the ... Half of this island, and the islands west and south of it, are part ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- rare Asiatic migrant birds, sea lions and fur seals. The Aleutian Islands ... these island arcs lie between the North American plates and the Pacific Plate ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Siberia and Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and ... walrus, Steller's sea lion, Northern Fur Seal, Beluga whales, Orcas ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- part of Ecuador, a country in northwestern South America that claimed it in 1832. ... ====Baltra (South Seymour)==== During World War II Baltra was established ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 01:47, 22 October 2022
- Pinnipeds: The Kuril islands are home to two species of eared seal ... . A distinct Kuril island subspecies of the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- is bounded by Manitoba and Ontario to the south, and Quebec to the east. ... portions of four U.S. states (Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- the Middle States, Appalachia, and the upper south. Prior to 1984 ... north, Indiana to the west, Kentucky to the south, and West Virginia to the ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago ... located nearest the mainland of continental South America, and its surrounding ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 02:03, 8 September 2022
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South ... animals survive there, including penguins, fur seals, mosses, lichens, and ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- Old Town (Vieux-Québec), the only North American fortified city north of ... gave the company control over the booming fur trade and land rights across ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
