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People live close to nature, and animals are respected and live alongside the villagers. Seals are especially respected for their special human-like spirit. It is said to be terribly wrong to harm a seal. As she meets other villagers, Fiona hears from a distant cousin, Tadhg, about an ancestor who married a beautiful selkie (seal-woman).
A typical folk-tale is that of a man who steals a female selkie's skin, finds her naked on the sea shore, and compels her to become his wife. [18] But the wife will spend her time in captivity longing for the sea, her true home, and will often be seen gazing longingly at the ocean.
Ringed seal skin Anti-sealskin cartoon by J. M. Staniforth (1899). Sealskin is the skin of a seal. Seal skins have been used by the peoples of North America and northern Eurasia for millennia to make waterproof jackets and boots, and seal fur to make fur coats. Sailors used to have tobacco pouches made from sealskin. Canada, Greenland, Norway ...
Other seals, like the walrus and most phocids, breed on ice and copulate in the water—a few land-breeding species also mate in water. [29] [108] Females of these species tend to be more spaced out and there is less site fidelity, since ice is less stable than solid land. Hence polygyny tends to be weaker in ice-breeding species.
Klum gave birth to daughter Leni in May 2004, and Seal adopted the little one five years later. The singer and Klum went on to welcome Henry, Jonah and Lou in 2005, 2006 and 2009, respectively ...
A southern elephant seal's eyes are large, round, and black. The width of the eyes, and a high concentration of low-light pigments, suggest sight plays an important role in the capture of prey. Like all seals, elephant seals have hind limbs whose ends form the tail and tail fin. Each of the "feet" can deploy five long, webbed fingers.
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Fall is a hop, skip, and a jump (into a pile of crunchy leaves) away, which means it's almost time to pull out your favorite sweaters, flannels, and mugs to fill with endless pumpkin spice lattes ...