ringed seal
Americannoun
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The small resident population is highly unusual compared to the typical Arctic ringed seal, which has an enormous population size and often travels thousands of kilometres around the Arctic in search of food.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023
The ringed seal has an uncertain future as its breeding habitat has drastically declined due to reduced ice cover, the report stated.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2022
The blubber from one adult ringed seal can help a polar bear survive for more than 10 days.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 22, 2021
But the ringed seal, the smallest Arctic seal species, cannot adapt to dry land so easily.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2017
Johansen took a walk along the lanes, and also managed to miss a ringed seal, or ‘snad,’ as we call it in Norwegian, in a pool here east of us.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof
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