Around 15 % of the world's
seal population live here, so be sure to spend an afternoon admiring these wonderful animals lazing on the shore.
Not exact matches
The fact that the campus was close to where she
lived and serviced a variety of diverse
populations just served to
seal the deal for her.
Today, thanks to government protection and the
seals» distant
lives at sea, the worldwide
population has grown to an estimated 150,000
seals.
Predicting the future of mammalian
populations requires long time series of demographic and
life history parameters: for example, the short term stability of the effective size of our
seal population may be confirmed in the long term only when long time series of number of breeding females, pup mortality rate, and adult survival rate will be available.
October 15, 2015 More than 1 % of critically endangered Hawaiian monk
seal population has received
life - saving care thanks to The Marine Mammal Center
And while
life in an icy lake might be tough, writes bioGraphic, «the greatest threat that Baikal
seal populations face is pollution from factories situated along the lake's shores.»
By the time a child born in 2015 retires around 2090, she'll be
living in a world with few wild polar bears or Arctic
populations of narwhals, bearded
seals, and ringed
seals.
Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their
lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of
seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied
population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a
population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear
population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45
Marine mammals
living in the polar regions rely on sea ice, and continuing reductions in the amount of ice will harm
populations of
seals, walruses, and polar bears.